After an afternoon of fairly dry probing of economic regression analyses, the real sparks in Wednesday’s Apple ebook pricing trial came at the very end of the day, in a battle over whether Madeline McIntosh of Random House will be called to testify. Originally the government was going to call McIntosh — as well as Random House ceo Markus Dohle — but they decided not to, and lead defense attorney Orin Snyder says they “never told us.” The government will accept McIntosh’s written testimony without questioning her, which technically leaves no opportunity for the defense to address her unless she […]
