Wednesday’s ebook pricing trial against Apple finished with testimony from Amazon executive Russ Grandinetti, who will return to the stand on Thursday, with colleagues Laura Porco and David Naggar to follow. He said that during the original switch to agency, “it was our belief the reason we were in this position is that some of the publishers wanted to slow down the success of Kindle.” Grandinetti agreed with Apple attorney Howard Heiss’s characterization of the original meeting in Seattle at the end of January, 2010 with Macmillan executives John Sargent and Brian Napack to first discuss new contract models as tense, and […]