Letter from Japan: I ♥ Novels: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

Letter from Japan: I ♥ Novels: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker: "The cell-phone novel, or keitai shosetsu, is the first literary genre to emerge from the cellular age. For a new form, it is remarkably robust. Maho i-Land, which is the largest cell-phone-novel site, carries more than a million titles, most of them by amateurs writing under screen handles, and all available for free. According to the figures provided by the company, the site, which also offers templates for blogs and home pages, is visited three and a half billion times a month."