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08-14-2016, 03:53 AM
Wi-Fi shunned by indie bookstores in London combatting online distractions
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The battle to snag the precious attention of consumers swimming in a sea of ubiquitous Wi-Fi (http://mashable.com/category/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 (http://mashable.com/2016/07/18/twitter-bookstore-wedding/)
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 (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/14/travel/london-bookstores.html) in the New York Times.*
The practice, which has become popular at many bookstores in recent years, took hold as places like Starbucks (http://mashable.com/category/starbucks/) and Barnes & **ble (http://mashable.com/category/barnes-and-**ble/) began allowing customers to read, drink java and even browse the internet, all in a bid to stoke interest in those store's offline inventory.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/13/wi-fi-bookstore-london/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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The battle to snag the precious attention of consumers swimming in a sea of ubiquitous Wi-Fi (http://mashable.com/category/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 (http://mashable.com/2016/07/18/twitter-bookstore-wedding/)
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 (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/14/travel/london-bookstores.html) in the New York Times.*
The practice, which has become popular at many bookstores in recent years, took hold as places like Starbucks (http://mashable.com/category/starbucks/) and Barnes & **ble (http://mashable.com/category/barnes-and-**ble/) began allowing customers to read, drink java and even browse the internet, all in a bid to stoke interest in those store's offline inventory.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/13/wi-fi-bookstore-london/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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