A new 414-page book has been released or free download. The book entitled "Innovative Mobile Learning: Techniques and Technologies" is a collection of chapters from across the world, edited by  Hokyoung Ryu and David Parsons from  Massey University, New Zealan.

"The aim of Innovative Mobile Learning: Techniques and Technologies is to introduce the reader to the current directions of mobile learning (a.k.a., m-learning). More precisely, it is about providing a comprehensive survey of mobile learning research and projects that both academics and educational practitioners may utilize in their work."

I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but wanted to let you know about it.  You can download your copy here .

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Half of Japan's top-10 selling works of fiction in the first six months of the year were composed the same way - on the tiny handset of a mobile phone. They sold an average of 400,000 copiesThus far most of the mobile initiatives we have been following have been access to and delivery of content, however user generated content is of strong interest. Other than photos to blogs and Flickr and short blog entries, there has not been much concentration on content creation on mobile devices.

This is not the case in Japan. In an article today in the Sydney Morning Herald "half of Japan's top-10 selling works of fiction in the first six months of the year were composed the same way - on the tiny handset of a mobile phone. They sold an average of 400,000 copies."

Mobile phone novels are initially written in small segments and sent out to readers in installments through a novel website.

Interesting...