0--- The Mobile Phone Novel

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This week the 2007 bestseller list, published
by Japan's biggest book distributor, Tohan,
revealed that five of the year's most successful
novels, including the top three, were first
written for downloading on mobile phones
before being republished in book form.

The number one seller, Love Sky, sold two
million copies in the last year, has recently
been released as a hit film, and has made a
star of its author, a woman in her early
20s known only as Mika.

A sequel, Your Sky, came in at number three,
and second place went to Red String by Mei,
which sold one million copies. All are written
in short, simple sentences using relatively
few characters, featuring melodramatic plots
heavy on violence, sex and tear-jerking sentiment.

Love Sky, for example, tells the story of a
teenage girl who is bullied, gang-r.a.p.e.d,
becomes pregnant and suffers a miscarriage.

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