- http://www.ikea.com/aa/en/store/adelaide
“To see how profoundly the book business is changing, watch the shelves. Next month IKEA will introduce a new, deeper version of its ubiquitous “BILLY” bookcase. The flat-pack furniture giant is already promoting glass doors for its bookshelves. The firm reckons customers will increasingly use them for ornaments, tchotchkes and the odd coffee-table tome—anything, that is, except books that are actually read.”
So begins an article recently published in The Economist which points out the fact that in the first five months of this year American sales of e-books have overtaken those of adult hardback books.
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