Just returned from speaking at the Microsoft-sponsored MobileCamp NYC3 seminar in New York where "Manga Man" was one of the most popular presentations among the geekerati. Tremendous feedback at
http://barcamp.org/MobileCampNYC3. ("Manga Man was pretty epic.")

The meta-multimedia novel has gone viral worldwide via an article in New Scientist magazine:

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2008/11/a-mobile-pho...

Being New Scientist, they used a wacky algorithm to review the entire 600-page novel based on a single sentence.  Verdict: "Probability: A Good Book."   

Now it's time to be patient for about 200 years before the literary world catches on!