I just read an article about how five of the top ten bestselling novels in Japan right now were WRITTEN on the author's mobile phones.
Here is a quote (found in the comments from the author of the article):
So successful that one volume of her book, which began its life in a series of instalments uploaded to an internet site and sent out to the phones of thousands of young subscribers, has sold more than 420,000 copies since it was converted into hardcopy format in January.
Remarkably, half of Japan’s top-10 selling works of fiction in the first six months of the year were composed the same way - on the tiny handset of a mobile phone.
I would seriously rather had write a novel than try to type it all in on one of those tiny keyboards!
Here is the full article:
In Japan Half The Top Selling Books Are Written On Mobile Phones
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50,237 / 50,000
Dec 3, 2007 - 09 22
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And here I thought that last 1000 Words cartoon was just funny because of the popularity of text messaging.
I didn't think people ACTUALLY did that!!!
205,576 / 50,000
Dec 3, 2007 - 11 25
Okay as insane as that is I am so not doing that next year! I'm still recovering from my marathon lol.
53,852 / 50,000
Dec 3, 2007 - 12 25
I used to write on my phone during last year's NaNo when I was at work. It ate up a lot of space on my sim card and then translated into a few paragraphs when I got home. But the spell check was awesome, it wouldn't type a word unless you knew how to spell it correctly.
Technically the E3 is just like one of the older cell-phones, only it does more.
60,012 / 50,000
Dec 3, 2007 - 13 33
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_phone_novel
:)