Commuters in one of London's most important financial centers will now be treated to a dose of literature on their way to work, thanks to the installation of three Short Story Dispensers.
“The print book is a really beautiful object," said Dr. Tiffany Munzer.
The Canary Wharf Group partnered with the French company Short Édition to install the Short Story Dispensers, which they had launched in other locations in 2015. Though these are the first Short Story Dispensers in the U.K., the literary vending machines are available in a number of the world's biggest cities, such as Paris, Hong Kong and San Francisco.To promote the scheme, Canary Wharf had one of the U.K.
Only three Short Story Dispensers have been installed so far on the Canary Wharf Estate, but the bite-sized chunks of literature will provide "the perfect digital antidote" to people's increasingly busy work lives, according to Lucie Moore, the head of arts and events at the Canary Wharf Group. "We're all guilty of saying we're too busy, but our research found that a staggering 70% of us would rather get lost in a good book than get lost down the rabbit hole of social media," Moore said in a statement. "Our Short Story Stations provide the perfect digital antidote -- a return to analogue scrolling. We hope Anthony's brilliant new work helps people to fall back in love with short stories.
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