A best--cellular list?

• Position: JAPAN - Brief article

Until recently, cell-phone novels--composed on phone keypads by young women with dexterous thumbs and read by fans on their tiny screens-had been dismissed by many in Japan as unworthy of the nation that gave the world its first novel, The Tale of Genji, a millennium ago. But in 2007, five of Japan's 10 bestselling novels were cell-phone fiction republished as books. They are mostly love stories written in text-messaging style, incorporating smilies and other emoticons. A...