According to The Economist magazine, Ikea is changing the design of its popular Billy Bookcases to make the shelves deeper. The magazine asserts that’s because Ikea thinks its customers will use the shelves for ornaments and tchotchkees – not books. But an Ikea spokesman insists “Billy is best for books.”
Read transcript or listen to full piece on NPR
LA Times article
Article in the LA Times a week ago: IKEA anticipates death of paper books, tweaks bookcase
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/09/ikea-bookcase-e-reader.html
All of which
Has been disproved as someone actually bothered to try talking to Ikea to see what was hapening, which is they are adding a 15 inch deep bookcase, not getting rid of any.
NPR
The NPR piece that was linked to provides the exact info that you just wrote.