Canada’s major bookstore chain decided that stocking the literary zines and chapbooks that Rastelli publishes had become too much of a hassle, and he was increasingly unable to get his product into the hands of its intended audience. Rastelli’s solution: buy some surplus cigarette machines – the Canadian government had recently restricted them in restaurants, and so they were in plentiful supply – and retrofit them into coin-operated delivery devices for art, literature and music. The ‘‘Distroboto’’ was born." see also :
The Book Drop and
The Poetry Dispenser (thanks to
ed and
jessamyn, respectively)