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Attorney says no evidence connects Apple to e-book price rigging
NEW YORK, June 21 () -- Apple's defense team in New York said prosecutors did not connect the technology giant to a conspiracy with publishers to raise the price of e-books.In closing statements in an antitrust case in its third week in a federal court in New York, Apple attorney Orin Snyder said there was no proof that the company's executives knew that publishers were talking among themselves as Apple joined the e-book business in 2010, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.Apple negotiated a different pricing structure than Amazon.com, the dominant player in the e-book business that had a set price of $9.99 per book. Apple's pricing agreement with publishers gave the publisher more clout in pricing. Five publishers that were frustrated with Amazon's power over pricing, have pleaded guilty in the case,[url=http://www.tinfoti.com]Christian Louboutin Outlet[/url], leaving Apple to make a stand by itself.In a closing statement that lasted 3 hours, Snyder called the evidence "ambiguous at best." He said Apple was an innocent bystander, albeit one close to the action,[url=http://www.supratksocietyvip.com/]cheap supra shoes[/url], in a disagreement between the publishers and Amazon.com."Apple walked into the middle of this e-book revolt," Snyder said. There is no proof that Apple knew of what publishers were doing -- there's "no such thing as conspiracy by telepathy," he said.Prosecutors were scheduled to make their closing statement Friday afternoon.