More on Japanese cellphone novels
Check out a Wall Street Journal story (via Peter Brantley). Excerpt:
“The novels with the most online readers also tend to sell well in the bookstores. Starts Publishing Corp., a small Tokyo publisher, was one of the first to take advantage of the mobile-novel genre when a Chaco fan called up and begged the company to turn her favorite story into a book. It sold 440,000 copies. Starts and a few other firms have turned more than two dozen of the most heavily accessed stories on Maho i-Land into printed books selling for about $9 each.”
Related: Keitai Novels to Print Books: Emergent Storytelling, Robert Nagle’s TeleBlog post based on a Japan Times item.
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