Vending Lucky Dip – from Toronto Book Store

A Book Store in Toronto has come up with a solution to a) get rid of old and unusual stock and b) attract book lovers to its quirky doors.

The Monkey’s Paw, self-named as “Toronto’s most idiosyncratic second-hand bookshop,”  has had created and installed , a vending machine, called the Biblio-mat,  that dispenses random books of its choice in exchange for the nominal sum of $2.00 each.

The machine is the brain child of Steven Fowler, although to be fair he was all for building a box and sticking a poor unsuspecting employee in it and handing out books in exchange for bucks. Thankfully, friend and preventer of staff abuse, Craig Small, co-founder of The Juggernaut, an animation studio in Toronto, made him see sense and built him this wonderful, satisfyingly clunky, machine.

The invitation on the machine is to ‘collect all 112 million titles’ … Brilliant! We can see it catching on, insert a couple of quid and anything that the shop owner wants to get rid of will be dispensed! Shall we call it the tombola-mat?

Oh and for Tom Waits fans, the sound track is rather cool…

 

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Yvonne Reynolds-Young

Planet Vending’s MD and Publisher is Yvonne Reynolds-Young. An island of corporate common sense surrounded by oceans of creative madness, Yvonne is the person to call if your intention is to make something happen. (She controls all the diaries and all the money, FYI). She’s also our Social Media Queen, single-handedly responsible for building PVs presence on LinkedIn, FaceBook and Twitter and thereby driving record volumes of traffic onto the site.

‘Customer service is my responsibility and it’s my job to make sure we’re always ahead of deadlines’ she says. ‘My background in big business means I speak the same language as our corporate clients and understand the particular pressures they face when working in the vending arena.’

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