The large mint in Japan right now are keitai shousetsu , mobile telephone novel that are composed on the phone , released electronically as serial publication , then compiled into the ancient paper - bound codex we ’re still hear to dump . In the first six month of 2007 , half of the top 10 bestselling novel in Japan were originally thumbtyped on a headphone , and have averaged 400,000 copies each in sales . Most of these novels are compose by women , and take some seriously messed - up subject matter .
One of the biggest sellers , Koizora ( Love Sky ) by a woman whose pen - name is simply Mika , has sold more than 1.2 million printed copies since October . It is about “ a eminent - school daughter who is bullied , bunch - raped , becomes meaning and has a spontaneous abortion in a saga of near - Biblical proportion , ” says the Sydney Morning Herald , which adds that the book will shortly be made into a movie .
Mika ’s work is distinctive of the genre .
The stories sweep teen romance , sex , drug and other adolescent terrain in a succession of clipped one - liners , emoticon and spaces ( used to show that a character is thinking ) , all of which can be record easily on a mobile phone interface . aspect and character development are notably missing .
Scholars attribute the shallowness of the literature to a shortage of cell - speech sound approachable kanji fibre and small screens which need “ short , unsubdivided sentences with basic words , ” rather than admit that this is , in fact , the signboard of a culture in descent . [ SMHviaGadget science laboratory ]
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