Booktagger users are probably regular readers of book on their daily commute, but how many have used the time to write one?Italian Roberto Bernocco tapped out a science fiction novel on his Nokia and published it on Lulu.com, making him the first author to write a book using a mobile phone. Roberto composed short paragraphs in perfect italian, which he later uploaded to his computer for editing.
In Japan, a new genre of book has become established, with five of last year's best-selling novels originally cell-phone novels. These are composed in the unique emoticon-punctuated style that friends text message each other with. Rin (pictured) has sold 400,000 copies of her novel "If You." This surprised her mother, who was unaware her daughter had texted a novel and, I am sure, surprised Rin herself by making it to fifth position on the nation's bestseller list.
(Further details on Roberto and Rin.)
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