{"id":311,"date":"2005-08-23T15:53:38","date_gmt":"2005-08-23T15:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=311"},"modified":"2005-08-23T15:53:38","modified_gmt":"2005-08-23T15:53:38","slug":"in_japan_comics_via_mobile_pho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/23\/in_japan_comics_via_mobile_pho\/","title":{"rendered":"in japan: comics via mobile phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another mobile lit item. Sony is increasing its mobile comics publishing service, offering around 300 popular &#8220;manga&#8221; titles to Japanese subscribers in the coming year.<br \/>\nFrom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/products\/services\/2005-08-22-cell-phone-comics_x.htm\">USA Today<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartmobs.com\/archive\/2005\/08\/22\/manga_via_the_c.html\">Smart Mobs<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cell-phone comics use a technology called Comic Surfing, developed by Tokyo-based venture firm Celsys, which takes viewers through manga stories at a carefully calculated speed and sequence.<br \/>\nThe manga frames are specially formatted to fit on tiny mobile phone screens. Pop-up frames and vibration during action scenes add to the drama. Cell-phone comics with preprogrammed sound effects are also coming soon&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Related:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/culture\/0,1284,68537,00.html?tw=rss.TOP\">&#8220;How Mobile Phones Conquered Japan&#8221;<\/a> in Wired &#8211; discussing the new book <a href=\"http:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/catalog\/item\/default.asp?ttype=2&#038;tid=10610\">&#8220;Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nand<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/japanese_cell_p.html\">&#8220;novels on your phone&#8221;<\/a> in if:book &#8211; about Japanese cell phone fiction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another mobile lit item. Sony is increasing its mobile comics publishing service, offering around 300 popular &#8220;manga&#8221; titles to Japanese subscribers in the coming year. From USA Today (via Smart Mobs): Cell-phone comics use a technology called Comic Surfing, developed by Tokyo-based venture firm Celsys, which takes viewers through manga stories at a carefully calculated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1187],"tags":[2690],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital_literature","category-microlit","tag-mobile-cellphone-phone-mobileweb-comic-manga-ebook-book-books-reading-japan-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}