Citing a changing climate in the reading world, the furniture
authorities are putting a new spin on the old bookshelf – redesigning
it to store anything but books.
The storage mavens at IKEA have noticed a shift in what consumers
are storing in their bookshelves. After all, a Kindle can hold
thousands more books than a wooden tower in the living room. According to The Economist,
IKEA will release a new version of its classic BILLY bookshelf next
month, one that's focused less on storing books than storing, well,
anything and everything else. The company is finding that customers use
their shelves increasingly for “ornaments, tchotchkes and the odd
coffee-table tome,” and less so for reading material.
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