French short story vending machine, instant printing returns to traditional reading

Grenoble is a city located in the Alps in southeastern France. The hometown of French writer Stendhal is here. The mayor of Grenoble recently ordered eight vending machines. These vending machines do not sell bottled and canned drinks, but short stories. There are three buttons on this orange and black machine, indicating 1 minute, 3 minutes, and 5 minutes respectively. As long as the user presses the button, the bottom of the machine will spit out paper strips with different lengths of short stories (3-minute version). The size of the note is 8*60 cm), which resembles a shopping receipt. This move is intended to change the 'head-down people' who use mobile phones to read and pass the time. This batch of short story vending machines are distributed in Grenoble's library, visitor center, city hall and other public places. They are currently in a state of free service. This idea was put forward by a French 'short reading' mobile app called Short Edition. More than 140,000 users posted micro news, poems and short stories on this platform. Christophe Sibieude, the co-founder of Short Edition, said, “The idea came from vending machines selling chocolate and drinks.” In his opinion, high-quality literary content can be the same as snacks to enrich our leisure time. This idea was endorsed by the mayor of Grenoble, Eric Piolle. The environmentalist mayor who had received attention for banning Grenoble’s street advertising in 2014 said in an interview with the media, “We are working hard to promote A revolution, hoping to make the city center a place for sharing and exchange.” This is not the first attempt by Short Edition to promote reading in leisure time. In 2014, Short Edition cooperated with French public transportation group Transdev to launch a project called The Smart Trip service allows passengers to read a short story or poem through the App within a few minutes while waiting for the bus or subway, and can comment and rate it. If Smart Trip is more like the initial integration of Short Edition App in the field of public transport, then today, the attempt of short story vending machines is a step closer to traditional reading. So far, Short Edition has received many intents to buy short story vending machines from all over the world. Short Edition said that this service will be provided to more countries in the future. The above information is provided by vending machine manufacturers. Please mark the reprint. Previous post: Consumer upgrades in the retail industry Beauty vending machines are unveiled one after another