{"id":260,"date":"2007-01-09T18:40:08","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T17:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/09\/mobile-novels\/"},"modified":"2007-01-09T18:40:08","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T17:40:08","slug":"mobile-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"Mobile novels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently the first <a href=\"http:\/\/mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp\/specials\/news\/20061128p2g00m0dm016000c.html\">Mobile Phone Novel Awards<\/a> were held in Japan. The winner was a woman from Osaka, whose novel concerns a love affair between a schoolgirl and a gigolo. You can see a Japanese version of the report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mainichi-msn.co.jp\/shakai\/gakugei\/etc\/novel\/\">here<\/a>. The Japanese have apparently been reading novels and manga on their phones for a few years, though this is the first time I&#8217;ve heard of this phenomenon. Some of the authors of these novels apparently write them entirely or partly on their phones as well, which must lead to very sore thumbs!<\/p>\n<p>I think such novels are quite popular in China, but do you know if they have caught on elsewhere?<\/p>\n<p>Have any of you read a mobile novel like this? Are they written in a different style to printed books?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently the first Mobile Phone Novel Awards were held in Japan. The winner was a woman from Osaka, whose novel concerns a love affair between a schoolgirl and a gigolo. You can see a Japanese version of the report here. The Japanese have apparently been reading novels and manga on their phones for a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,10,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese","category-language","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}