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Although books are still popular with teenagers, most of them spend more of their leisure time stari...
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Although books are still popular with teenagers, most of them spend more of their leisure time staring at their phone than reading a paperbook..1.Instead of publishing whole book at once, they produce very short chapters, which they send once a week to their readers by text message.
2.Many are written by high school or university students who are very familiar with the topics that teenagers are interested in. Common themes are love, tragedy and betrayal, and the stories often deal with difficult or controversial issues.
Twenty-one-year-old Rin wrote her novel over a six-month period in spare moments, often while commuting on the train.3.Her book sold 40000 copies and was number five in the Japanese bestseller list. Rin said that her mother had had no idea that she had been writing a novel and was therefore very surprised when she saw a book with her daughter's name on it
4.Chapters have no more than 200 words, and often just 50-100 words. Sentences are short and there are no descriptions of anything or anybody because there isn't space. The text mostly consists of dialogue and the language is direct, conveying a lot in a few words.
In 2009, a young Japanese writer called Takatsu, who lives in Canada, began writing the first English language cell phone novel, Secondhand Memories. Takatsu had read an English translation of Rin’s story and had been impressed by its simple and emotional language. It was a feature he deliberately copied when he started writing Secondhand Memories.5.He now believes that, in English, cell phone novels have a powerful and poetic identity of their own. Cell phone novels encourage young people to engage in fiction, even those who would not normally pick up a book. They could be described as ten novels for the 21st century.
A. Books are sometimes regarded as old-fashioned and difficult to read.
B. In response 10 this trend, some smart young authors have changed the way they write.
C. However, as the story progressed, the style gradually evolved into something different.
D. She typed out chapters on her phone and uploaded them onto a popular website for cell phone authors.
E. No money is made from cell phone novels unless they are published as books.
F. The style of cell phone novels has evolved to suit the medium.
G. Although the idea originated in Japan, cell phone novels have also appeared in the rest of world.
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