I find myself intrigued by the phenomena.
I find myself fantasizing about big bucks on little teeny books that are all dialogue--
And should include a fatal illness and love--
Not in that order.
And the novels are short on plot. Just all that dialogue.
Totally simple--
Except I can't tap out messages on my phone, let alone actual dialogue--
But I bet they forgo quotation marks, which should help.
Apparently this is where the young in Japan are doing their reading--on their cellphones. Not even on computers.
So, these novels are tapped out on the cellphone, then uploaded onto various sites, which the fans of these fluffy objects d'art then access using their cellphones. Presumably they read them...well just about anywhere.
The author makes money when these novels are actually printed and sold in stores.
I wonder who buys them, if they're already being read for free on the cellphones. But according to the article I read in the New York Times, last year five of the top ten bestsellers in Japan started out as cell phone novels.
This feels like a lot of sugar. Like Easter eggs. Like birthday cake.
This cell phone novel thing...it delights me.
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