Swiss vote against book price control

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%."