Thumbs Race as Japan’s Best Sellers Go Cellular

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  • Author(s): By:Staff Writer
  • Source:
    TimesDaily (Florence, AL), January 20, 2008 Archives, 5pp
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    • Abstract:
      TOKYO — Until recently, cellphone novels — composed on phone keypads by young women wielding dexterous thumbs and read by fans on their tiny screens — had been dismissed in Japan as a subgenre unworthy of the country that gave the world its first novel, “The Tale of Genji,” a millennium ago...