Book machine
A book machine is a vending machine for books, magazines, and other media . It is used for content that the customer wants to get quickly or anonymously, and in places where there is demand around the clock. The machines are therefore often located at train stations and offer travel literature. Audiobook and DVD machines are used in a similar manner.
history
As early as 1891, Johannes Trojan mentions in the national newspaper (June 7, 1891, morning edition, 1st supplement, p. 2) a book machine with which the “ten-penny library” was sold. In 1912 the Reclam-Verlag set up book machines for sale in Erfurt for the first time. There were over 2000 of them in train stations, on ships, in hospitals and in barracks. Despite increased sales, the experiment ended in the early 1930s as the cost of running it became too high. At the end of the 1930s, Penguin Verlag in England sold its Penguin book paperbacks in Woolworth department stores through Penguincubator book machines.
In 2003, Mixer Comics machines appeared. These comics are sold parallel to the book trade via four vending machines in Vienna and Berlin. Since 2004, the publisher sells SuKuLTuR of Marc Degen , Torsten Franz and Frank Maleu his series of booklets Beautiful Read about confectionery machines , for example in Berlin (11 units in 2004). In this way, by October 2015, over 100,000 booklets were sold in Berlin confectionery machines alone. A pure booklet machine was set up in 2008 in the production hall of the kunst: raum sylt quelle foundation on Sylt . In the Alten Schauspielhaus Stuttgart , Reclam editions of the current plays are sold with an old, reconditioned Reclam machine.
A book vending machine with a capacity of 400 books was installed in the Newcastle library in England in 2009.
The small publishing house Hamburger Automatenverlag , founded in 2010, sells books through five converted cigarette machines .
In England, France, Spain, Portugal and Japan, book machines are often set up at train stations and airports.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release from a provider, 2005 (PDF; 485 kB)
- ↑ www.wieninternational.at/ ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ taz of 2 February 2004: Poetry to Mars - The Esser is also a reader: A conversation with the Publisher Frank Maleu that his booklet series " Beautiful Read sells" recently in vending machines
- ↑ Börsenblatt dated January 13, 2003: SuKuLTuR sells reading books via vending machines ( Memento of the original dated November 22, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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- ↑ http://www.vendortech.de/index.php/de/presse-und-news/88-01032009-buchautomat-jetzt-auch-in-grossringen.html
- ↑ Browsing instead of smoking ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hamburger Automatenverlag: Die Automaten ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 12, 2012
- ↑ The Hamburger Literaturautomat - A publisher rediscovers the cigarette machine.
- ↑ http://mattstourblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/buchautomat.html
- ↑ http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/9005718
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.flickr.com/photos/wordridden/448145509/
- ↑ First book vending machine at AUBMC ( Memento from January 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
