Tuesday morning’s testimony at the Apple ebook price fixing trial focused on Apple’s counsel Kevin Saul, with a curiously charged exchange over emails from early March 2010 — after the alleged collusion with the Agency Five was complete. In the correspondence Wiley’s Deirdre Silver is resisting Apple’s most favored nations clause, as she notes “we cannot control pricing by third parties to whom we sell eBooks on a ‘wholesale’ basis.” Silver is describing what came to be the crux of what we dubbed the “hybrid model” — which is how nearly all publishers wound up doing business with Apple. In […]
