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Will cellphone novels kill ‘the author’? If you believe blogs will kill ‘the journalist,’ then yes
Sunday, January 20, 2008What: Five of the 10 best-selling novels last year in Japan were originally cellphone novels.
Freaking out:
“Fans praised the novels as a new literary genre created and consumed by a generation whose reading habits had consisted mostly of manga, or comic books. Critics said the dominance of cellphone novels, with their poor literary quality, would hasten the decline of Japanese literature.”
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