Mobile World

The cell phone novel is the first literary genre to emerge from the cellular age via text messaging to a website that collects the novels as a whole. In virtual online computer games, readers can put themselves into first person in the story. Cell phone novels create a personal space for each individual reader. Paul Levinson, in Information on the Move (2004), says "...nowadays, a writer can write just about as easily, anywhere, as a reader can read" and they are "not only personal but portable".