There are now novels for cell phones. Seriously. Has anyone tried reading–or writing–one of these? Do tell!
The Jane Austen of the text-u-scripts is a 15-year-old who goes by the handle Bunny. Her three-volume book “Wolf Boy x Natural Girl” got its start on cell screens but ended up in print. She has sold a whopping 110,000 books so far and raked in over $600,000 in sales. Not bad for a first-time author who hasn’t even taken her high-school entrance exams. Read more. . .
Just…wow. I’ve heard of this, but I had NO idea it was profitable.
I’m…stunned!
It’s not very popular in the US, unfortunately. I think something about the Japanese language being a character language that makes it possible to tell a story in short 500 character snippets. However, if you want to give it a shot, check out http://www.textnovel.com. They have a cell phone genre, though most works on the site are longer-length works.