The digital age has changed the way we read and what we read from, in a digitally evolving world many are whispering about the slow demise of the grandparent print industry.
The web has spear headed a literal revolution, were a whole generation are texting, blogging and tweeting, communication has never been so liberal.
Speaking of texting which is probably the older of the three mentioned, has firmly re-modelled it self into 21st century while remaining 'novel' Its called keitai shosetsu, Japonese for cell phone novel. With stories being specifically created for mobile handsets, this emerging literary form is published in 70-word installments, or abbreviated chapters that are the ideal length to be read between shorter train stops. The industry has realised this and have published some of the authors of theses stories.
It has also become big business. In major book wholesaler Tohan's 2007 best-seller list, five out of the top 10 books in the fiction category were keitai shosetsu, including the top three.
Is this the start of the metamorphosis of the book industry, and will the west catch on to this cell phone literal evolution, which will probably be my next article, (Huh!) I mean post.
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