Ayesha Pande at Ayesha Pande Literary is one of the few literary agents that the DOJ will be calling to testify directly at length in the A3 trial, but when her appearance concluded on Tuesday morning, it left some people wondering how her evidence supports the case against the merger. She did ratify the government’s argument that the big five are unto themselves in terms of their ability to consistently pay big advances and bring to bear best-in-breed marketing, publicity and sales clout. Pande noted that even for her authors who have published successfully with a smaller, independent house, “it […]