Simon & Schuster CEO Says She Didn’t Discuss Apple E-Book Talks
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The chief executive officer of CBS Corp.’s Simon & Schuster unit testified she didn’t know the details of negotiations between Apple Inc. and rival publishers in the weeks before they signed e-book sales agreements.
Carolyn Reidy, the second publishing CEO called as a witness in the Justice Department’s civil antitrust suit against Apple over e-book pricing, said in Manhattan federal court yesterday that she didn’t recall talking to any other publishers about their negotiations in the weeks before five of the six biggest publishers signed e-book contracts with Apple.