Now novels are produced on mobile phones

Thu, 27 Sep 2007

Novelists who produce their work on mobile phones are topping bestseller lists, with a new generation of authors writing their entire epics on the keypad of their handset .

The novels have become a phenomenon in Japan, where they are known as Keitai Shosetsu. Of the ten fiction bestsellers during the first half of 2007, five novels started life as Keitai, on average boasting sales of 400,000.

Understandably, the novels are limited in their language, and are written primarily for a young audience. Some have become runaway successes; the most popular are dialogue heavy and written in short paragraphs.

Some writers have complained about the mobile phone novel system, saying that the stories lack any setting or scene. The trend could allow new authors to be recognised.

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