Sunday, September 11, 2011
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TechCrunch: If you needed any more proof that the age of dead-tree books is over take a look at these alarming style changes at Ikea: the furniture manufacturer’s iconic BILLY bookcase – the bookcase that everyone put together when they got their first apartment and, inevitably, pounded the nails wrong into – is becoming deeper and more of a curio cabinet. Why? Because Ikea is noticing that customers no longer buy them for books.
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As long as there are cement blocks and planks of wood, there will still be bookshelves in my house.
Curios? Curioser and curioser!
Proof that e-books are taking over, or simply proof that people aren't buying books, period?
This feels a lot like when the baby boomers started putting record albums in frames and hung them on the walls
You know when you watch "Antiques Roadshow" and someone brings in an old Victrola and a bunch of 78-rpm records? Perhaps in another generation or so, people will be bringing in those oblong-shaped objects full of printed paper and the appraiser will say, "This is what is called a book and used to be quite popular for reading."
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