Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1912 — Slot Literature in Germany. [ARTICLE]

Slot Literature in Germany.

Penny in the slot literature Is the latest thing in Germany. A firm of publishers at Leipslc has patented an automatic machine which gives a choice of a dozen small paper covered volumes which are displayed behind glass. On a strip of paper across each volume la printed a brief description of the book, and a coin in the slot does the rest. These automatic machines are. to be placed inhotel lobbies, waiting rooms, theater foyers and other public places . The hope Is expressed that as the books offered are carefully selected and by first-class authors the venture may have a beneficial educative effect updri the masses and thus counteract the influence of the cheap and trashy, literature with which the country to flooded.