Mobile-roman

[Mark Nornes]

 From a Times story about novels/serials produced for distribution via 
keitai. Some of these are combining text with still photos, and clearly 
moving image narrative is what everyone is gearing up for.  While East 
Asia positions itself, New York looks on...

> Still, that hasn't stopped a number of companies from trying to 
> exploit the potential market. During the Asian Film Festival this 
> month in Singapore, MediaCorp, a local company, announced that it was 
> spending a half-million dollars to produce 45 two-minute episodes of a 
> Chinese-language mobile video drama.
>
> [snip]
>
> In Japan, major publishers like Shinchosha and Kadokawa Shoten have 
> created Web sites to offer telephone reading material. Japan is also 
> home to probably the most successful telephone venture. Earlier this 
> year a mobile novel jumped from phone screens to the silver screen, 
> evolving into a feature film, "Deep Love."
>
> In the book industry in the United States, the initial reaction to 
> mobile-lit is: "Are you kidding?" as one veteran put it.

We'll see how long that attitude lasts...

Markus
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