17 March 2008
The phenomenon of mobile phone novels
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The New York Times and The Japan Times recently reported that half of the best selling novels in Japan last year were originally composed on mobile phones. That tiny device is apparently responsible for books that are outselling everything else, including a recent Japanese translation of Dostoevsky's classic The Brothers Karamazov. Is it a fad or is it a revolution?
Guests
Leith Morton
Professor of English
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Publications
Title: Modern Japanese Culture: The Insider View
Author: Leith Morton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN 0 19 554089 1
Presenter
Ramona Koval
Producer
Kate Pearcy
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