Last week Switzerland’s government decided to let stand the Alpine country’s Competition Commission’s decision to scrap the so-called net book agreement that allowed book publishers and book stores to jointly set prices for books in the German-speaking parts of the multilingual country.

The Swiss book industry had challenged the commission’s ruling, arguing that the NBA allowed independent bookstores to remain competitive and also helped prop up the market for German-language books in the country. The Italian and French speaking parts of Switzerland have already ditched price fixing.