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Paper books are not lonely. Paper books, which have conveyed knowledge and wisdom for many years, are not lonely because of the diversified reading environments such as e-books and audio books.

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Each has its advantages. If the smell and texture of the paper is good, you can choose a paper book. If you don't have room for a book, or if you want to carry several books, you can choose an e-book. .

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Recently, however, there is reading content that emerges from these gaps. It is an interactive novel. Interactive fiction is reading content that tells the story through dialogue between characters. It is not just a list of conversations, but a form of sending and receiving messages in a chat window such as KakaoTalk. For those who are tired of black letters and monotonous white backgrounds, interactive novels will surely come fresh. It feels like a peek into the chat room of two people.

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Interactive novels fit well with social network services (SNS), messenger apps, and millennials who are used to communicating with text. This is because they are adopting a communication method centered on smart devices.

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As a result, his personality is completely different from existing novels. The key is speed, where characters are quickly evolving with short-breathing conversations, so the reader can't get bored. Intentionally split the contents into small pieces to complete the story while traveling by subway or bus. Even if the post is a little longer, people who have the concentration to go directly to the comment or press the back button are no problem.

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In the United States, interactive fiction is called Chat Fiction. The services that appeared one step ahead of the domestic market are popular among teenagers. If you download the app and subscribe to it, you can read the novel at your convenience.

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Hooke and Yarn (Source: Hooked, Yarn)

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'Hooked' is typical. Hook was released in 2014, and its core subscribers are in their teens and mid-20s. Again, edited stories are provided to complete the story on the go. Yarn has worked with Marvel Entertainment to publish dozens of stories of superheroes. In addition, Cliffhanger and Amazon Rapids are competing with each other.

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(Source: Chatty Capture)

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In Korea, the mobile chat novel service 'Chatie' is active. It is responsible for connecting creators and readers and has 220,000 works. The cumulative number of users is 700,000.

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Subscribed reading platform 'Milli's library' is also paying attention to chat novels. It is providing 'chatbook' service that edits existing book by chat method. What is unique is that it deals with genres, not fiction. While reading the chatbook, if you want to know more details, go to the ebook and read it. At the end of the year, there are also recruiting writers who will publish their novels.

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(Source: Milly's study)

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Due to the nature of chat, it is not enough to convey a large amount of information. As the story is told through the characters' conversations, it fits well with novels and plays, but reveals limitations in other fields. That's why he focused on fiction, thriller, and romance.

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But if the reading population grows in any way, it's also meaningful. 

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Many people still read paper books (Source: Purity Research Center)

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The gloomy prophecy that the paper book will disappear is not yet fulfilled. The research firm Pew Research Center also found that 65 percent of the US reading population still read books on paper. E-books and audiobooks are still far from following paper books. There is a high competitiveness of paper books, but it is also difficult to find new ways to become mainstream. In this atmosphere, we need to see whether the interactive novel will be a new way of reading or disappearing.

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