{"id":1955,"date":"2008-01-20T21:58:51","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T02:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2008-01-20T21:58:51","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T02:58:51","slug":"nyt-cell-phone-novels-take-off-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1955","title":{"rendered":"NYT: Cell phone novels take off in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/\">The New York Times<\/a> has a story by Norimitsu Onishi,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/20\/world\/asia\/20japan.html?_r=2&amp;ex=1358485200&amp;en=0b46d32f7c7d037c&amp;ei=5088&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin\"><br \/>\nThumbs Race as Japan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Best Sellers Go Cellular &#8211; New York Times<\/a>, about how novels written in snippets on cell phones and posted to special blogs and then published in print were five of the top ten best-selling novels.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The boom appeared to have been fueled by a development having nothing to do with culture or novels but by cellphone companies\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 decision to offer unlimited transmission of packet data, like text-messaging, as part of flat monthly rates. The largest provider, Docomo, began offering this service in mid-2004.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if the serialization over time builds anticipation and sales? Does writing them on a cell phone change the prose?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has a story by Norimitsu Onishi, Thumbs Race as Japan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Best Sellers Go Cellular &#8211; New York Times, about how novels written in snippets on cell phones and posted to special blogs and then published in print were five of the top ten best-selling novels. The boom appeared to have been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1955\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NYT: Cell phone novels take off in Japan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,23,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-blogging-culture","category-book-arts","category-internet-culture-and-technology","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}