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Big Books Hit Japan's Tiny Phones

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on 2007-01-11 by cburell

Playing with Will Richardson...

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Chaco types furiously on her cell phone keypad, stopping only to take an occasional puff of her Seven Stars menthol cigarette. But she's not sending a text message. She's writing a novel.

Chaco is becoming one of the most popular mobile phone novelists in Japan.

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Next summer, the company will debut software that allows mobile phone novelists to integrate sounds and images into their story lines.

Adding visuals and vibrations to romance novels' steamy sex scenes could bring the genre an even wider audience.

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