Martha and Grant discuss the rise of the Great Japanese cell-phone novel. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Cell-Phone Novels”
Grant, there was a mind-boggling piece in the New York Times recently.
It was about the great Japanese cell phone novel.
These are novels that are originally written and meant to be read on cell phones.
And more and more of these quote-unquote novels are being republished in book form.
And Grant, it turns out that, get a load of this, last year in Japan, five of the top ten best-selling novels in book form were actually cell phone novels.
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