cell telephone novels now have book prizes

the japanese are famed for his or her love of mobile phones. in spite of everything, they can do the entirety from making plans thought to simulating teach riding even as on a actual teach.

but, it is now not so well known that the cellular is a popular platform on which to examine complete-duration novels, nor that the primary Japan cell telephone Novel Awards were held the previous day.

The so-referred to as keitai-shousetsu (keitai way 'mobile' and shousetsu is 'a singular') are wildly famous among the sixteen-forty five age institution and are, of path, most often examine on educate journeys. At yesterday's ceremony in Tokyo the top prize of one million yen (£four,434) went to an Osaka girl recognized most effective with the aid of her pen-name of Towa.

Her tale of romance between a schoolgirl prostitute and a nightclub host (yes, it's far very japanese) was ranked first by means of a panel of greater traditional writers and will now be published in print for the non-tech-savvy reading public's enjoyment.

cell novels are offered by means of huge publishing corporations, including Shinchosha or Kadokawa , for a few hundred yen (50p and up) to be downloaded as soon as and read at any time the use of Java e-book readers mounted on most handsets.