Swiss to reinstate fixed book prices

"On March 18 the Swiss parliament approved a fixed price system for books in German-speaking Switzerland, both for online and in-store sales as of next year. The debate over fixed book pricing is a complicated and volatile one in Europe. Various degrees of price control exist side by side, and countries vacillate on the legality and benefit of fixed price systems. In Germany all books, including e-books and books sold as apps, are included in the fixed price system. French law excludes books that don't closely correspond to a printed edition (apps), as well as foreign buyers and sellers. Britain hasn't had fixed book pricing since the Net Book Agreement was declared illegal in 1997"