A PC World item gives four reasons: Cellphones are easier to read from, on the subway, than alternatives are. The cell novels are cheap. They lack DRM. And enough Japanese publishing houses are behind the cellphone novel to make the idea respectable.

Related: 331 percent Japanese cellphone book growth.

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