L'espace presse Short édition

[...] While not reading is becoming a major problem among youths across the world, a French company called Short Édition has come up with a wonderful fix. It has installed UK’s first short story ][...]vending machines in London’s Canary Wharf, which, at the touch of a button, issues one, three and five-minute reads by authors like Charles Dickens to Virginia Woolf. These vending machines provide thousands of short stories printed on scrolls of eco-friendly papyrus paper at absolutely no cost. Further, they even feature bestselling novelist Anthony Horowitz’s specially commissioned crime story, Mr Robinson.
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The Short Story Dispenser was invented by Short Edition, a French publishing house. Since 2015, the machines have been dispensing short stories on receipt paper that range from one to five minute reads, free of charge.
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Stop scrolling through Instagram and read a short story next time you’re passing through Canary Wharf. These lovely machines, created by French company Short Édition, will dispense short stories for commuters — at varying lengths of one, three and five minutes. They’re printed on scrolls of eco-friendly papyrus paper and, what’s more, they are completely free of charge.
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Eight short story dispensers will make their way to Chapel Hill this week as part of a collaborative partnership with UNC Press, the Department of English & Comparative Literature, UNC’s Creative Writing Program, and Arts Everywhere.
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What do you do when you're on the tube? Play a game on your phone? Listen to a podcast? Or maybe you just sit and think about what you're having for dinner? Well, from today, there's another option.
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Readers over a certain age will remember when they’d spend their daily commute staring into space or reading a book. Now commuters pass the time gazing at, or listening to their phones. We have a vast array of options to fill our time: podcasts, games, apps, news, music and social media.
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Les magasins et centres commerciaux semblent se diriger vers l’inclusion. Réadaptation des infrastructures, embauche de personnels sensibilisés et formés, espaces accessibles, petit robot prêt à aider les personnes porteuses de handicap… Voyons où nous en sommes !
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Entre le choix d’une balade à travers la vieille ville ou un château à aller visiter, rien de telle qu’une petite histoire. Elle n’empêchera pas de se familiariser, ensuite, à la grande histoire de Bourges !
Depuis le début du mois de mars, l’office du tourisme de Bourges est équipé d’un distributeur d’histoires. Une borne rouge, personnalisée : « Viva Da Vinci», pour rattraper la grande histoire car, cette année, le Centre-Val de Loire commémore les 500 ans de Renaissance(s), la mort du savant Léonard de Vinci à Amboise et la première pierre de Chambord. Et c’est le profil de l’inventeur, Léonard de Vinci, qui orne le socle de ce distributeur de rêve, un outil connecté, une invention merveilleuse signée Short Édition.
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Once upon a time, in one of the busiest parts of one of the busiest cities in the world, the people were so busy, they didn’t have time to finish reading lengthy works of fiction. So three vending machines were set up, dishing out not chocolate bars or cans of drink, but free short stories to those rushing by.
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The UK's first short-story vending machines have been installed at a busy tube station in London's Canary Wharf. You can choose between one, three and five-minute reads...
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On the first night of its debut in Swem Library, the new short story dispenser printed so many short stories – 200 to be exact – that the machine ran out of paper.
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