Wi-Fi shunned by indie bookstores in London combatting online distractions

The battle to snag the precious attention of consumers swimming in a sea of ubiquitous Wi-Fi is being waged on a new front in London: bookstores.  SEE ALSO: This book nerd's tweet to a bookstore's official Twitter account ended in a love story Independent bricks and mortar bookstores in London like Libreria Books, Tenderbooks, Word on the Water, Buchhandlung Walther König and Lutyens & Rubinstein are all shunning the practice of offering Wi-Fi to customers, according to a report in the New Yor...