Japan has a few more genres of writing than we have in North America. One of them is the Keitai novel, short novels written on cell phones and published online. Anyone can take part and publish short stories by texting from their cell phone. One of the sites that publishes this type of content is Maho i-Land, but unfortunately there is no English version of the site this concept.

The reward for the most read Keitai novel is a publishing contract that turns it into a real book. The L.A. times reported a story about a 15 year old girl, ‘Bunny’, who has not only gotten a publishing deal for their cell phone novel, but who has earned over $600.000 from it. The girl writes under a pseudonym, and has called her success ‘embarrassing’. It is interesting how this success is something Bunny doesn’t want to brag about, and instead keeps it as a close guarded secret.