Apple's Eddy Cue offers short answers in e-book antitrust trial
Apple senior vice president Eddy Cue offered only short answers in testimony Thursday in federal court when questioned by U.S. Justice Department prosecutors trying to solidify their case that Apple, along with five of the largest book publishers, worked together to illegally set the prices of electronic books for the market.
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who was instrumental in the negotiations, cast an even larger shadow across the proceedings. Cue, who is senior vice president of Internet software and services, led the effort in late 2009 through 2010 to get publishers to release their titles on Apple’s iBookstore reader for the soon-to-be-launched iPad, and consulted frequently with Jobs.
Eddy Cue
“Steve and I worked very closely on this,” Cue said.
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