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How We Got 10M Teens to Read Fiction on Their Phones
- valuearb 9y agoThis story mad me sad. A/B testing fiction? Chat stories? The new world wasn't made for me.
- Rangi42 9y ago"Chat stories" with "comic-book inspired" young-adult plots, made to be read on mobile phones... Sounds like they've reinvented Japanese cell phone novels[1]. Sci-fi/fantasy YA plots are also common to light novels [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_phone_novel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_phone_novel [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_novel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_novel