A smarter and smaller version of everything is discovered in our times. When we were kids people used to write long letters to each other which became shorter and quicker by changing into emails. Emails shrank into SMSs. In an effort to do lot of things in minimum time we do manage to use our time economically but I am sure none of the jobs is enjoyed. And at the end of the day we have no peaceful moments to cherish a single event!
In our college days, we did not use to talk to 20 friends in a day(like we do now using a mobile phone) but the face-to-face meeting with one friend was such a pleasure and time spend in peace used to stay in our memories for a life time.Book reading which used to be ultimate recreation for book lovers will also change forever with the publishing of a novel in the SMS format.
According to Hindustantimes, HarperCollins India, Pinki Virani’s Deaf Heaven is the first literary cell-novel and an adult audio-mobile book in the subcontinent. The literary cell-novel will be made available in 90 SMSes and the adult audio-mobile book in two short-duration downloads by Reliance Mobile.
“As publishers, we are always looking to expand reach and to find innovative ways of creating synergy through related media, so this is a first which will hopefully lead to several other experiments in the field,” says HarperCollins India CEO PM Sukumar.
“Our cell phone novel will introduce an interesting element to how novels are read; readers will get the entire book condensed into a few SMSes. The concept that a novel can also be ‘read’ via SMS and ‘heard’ at any time via voice portals is itself an unique and innovative idea,” says Krishna Durbha, head (VAS) of Reliance Communications.
