Cellphone novels sell fast in Japan
Posted by Jacque on September 4th, 2007
As I mentioned in a post yesterday, there is a book format for everyone. According to Digital World Tokyo, in Japan, books designed to be read on cellphones have been so successful that they have begun to outsell print paperbacks.
According to literary website Japanese Writers’ House two minor-league publishers, Goma Books and Maho i-Land, have just celebrated selling more than the long-established behemoths that have always dominated Japanese publishing.
They have sold more than more than three million keitai (mobile phone) novels in the first half of 2007. The biggest seller is a work entitled The Red Thread, which has sold over one million digital copies in six months. Each phone novel costs between $1 and $8. [via LISnews]
