{"id":41881,"date":"2012-11-15T12:15:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T17:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=41881"},"modified":"2013-04-22T13:31:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T17:31:28","slug":"introducing-the-biblio-mat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/15\/introducing-the-biblio-mat\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the Biblio-Mat!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/biblio-mat1-205x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/biblio-mat1-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"biblio-mat1-205x300\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41906\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/monkeyspaw.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The  Monkey\u2019s Paw<\/a> dubs itself \u201cToronto\u2019s most idiosyncratic secondhand  bookshop,\u201d a mix of antiquarian treasures, oddities, art installations, and eccentricities of all kinds. Their latest innovation? The Biblio-mat, a vending machine that\u00a0 dispenses random used books. As owner Stephen Fowler told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quillandquire.com\/blog\/index.php\/bookselling-2\/2012\/11\/12\/qa-the-monkeys-paw-introduces-the-biblio-mat-book-vending-machine\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Quill &amp; Quire<\/em><\/a>, \u201cThe books in the machine are two dollars each&mdash;that\u2019s not enough to make any profit, but the nature of the secondhand book business is that I end up with a lot of books that are interesting and worth keeping and disseminating, but have no practical retail value.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more on why we love this place, check out this 2010 short film:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"600\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5guzULOU7-U?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5guzULOU7-U?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Monkey\u2019s Paw dubs itself \u201cToronto\u2019s most idiosyncratic secondhand bookshop,\u201d a mix of antiquarian treasures, oddities, art installations, and eccentricities of all kinds. 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As owner Stephen Fowler told Quill &amp; Quire, \u201cThe books in the machine are two dollars each&mdash;that\u2019s not enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[419],"tags":[9226,17,5188,2574,2840,9227,9228,2826,8207],"class_list":["post-41881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-culture","tag-biblio-mat","tag-books","tag-booksellers","tag-bookstores","tag-independent-booksellers","tag-monkeys-paw","tag-stephen-fowler","tag-toronto","tag-used-books"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Introducing the Biblio-Mat! by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"November 15, 2012 \u2013 The Monkey\u2019s Paw dubs itself \u201cToronto\u2019s most idiosyncratic secondhand bookshop,\u201d a mix of antiquarian treasures, oddities, art installations, and\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/15\/introducing-the-biblio-mat\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Introducing the Biblio-Mat! 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