Mobile Novel Sales Growing

The Economist has caught-on to the growth of mobile novels in Japan noting; “with sales of books in decline, a new market has come as a godsend to Japan’s publishing companies. Sales of mobile-phone
novels—books that you download and read, usually in instalments, on the screen of your keitai, or mobile phone—have jumped from nothing five years ago to over ¥10 billion ($82m) a year today and are still growing fast.” BusinessWeek ran a good op-ed on this subject last month as well.

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If you understand german, you can also start reading the first chapter of the first swiss mobile novel here: Sabina Altermatt's Nervengift



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See older posts about the topic:
Mobile Mangas: Women at 11 pm (28.10.2006)
Mobile Mangas: 40 cents the story (12.7.2006)
The first swiss phone novel (20.2.2006)
What Can You Learn from a Cell Phone? (14.6.2005)
Novels delivered to your phone (3.11.2004)