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Submission + - Swiss vote against book price control (tagesschau.sf.tv)

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hinterwaeldler

on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @06:40AM

hinterwaeldler writes: "2007 switzerland abandoned book price control (which requires publishers to fix prices for their books and forbids any dealer to sell at another price), reducing prices by 30% to 50% for online buyers. The brick & mortar book stores lobbied the parliament into creating a bill to reinstate the price fixing, against which a referendum was taken by liberals and the pirate party, forcing a popular vote. On march 11, after an intense debate, swiss voters decided against book price control with a large majority of 56%."

Comment Re:Huh? "Most stable?" (Score 0) 1867

by hinterwaeldler on Monday September 27, 2004 @06:02AM (#10360842) Attached to: Europeans To Monitor American Voters

Yes, the translation captures the spirit. After many of the big cities became reformed (I don't know if this translates right, in German it's called "Reformierte"), the catholic provinces, consisting mainly of the countryside, created a new federation called the "sonderbund". Then the other provinces decided they had to protect the unity of the country and destroyed the sonderbund with military power. The war was over after 27 days and 100 deaths. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderbundskrieg

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