ALI, Associazione Librai Italiani, was founded in 1946 and is the main association for Italian bookstores. It promotes and defends the interests of more than 3600 bookstores and companies.
Here is a manifesto describing the crisis of Italian indipendent bookstores in terms of books prices laws.
And here is the text of the recent Levi's law on book pricing in Italy.
Basically before Levi's law major bookstores were able to discount books without limitations, playing unbeatable competition to indipendent bookstores.
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