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 York Times.*
The practice, which has become popular at many bookstores in recent years, took hold as places like Starbucks and Barnes & **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...