Apple received a boost in its defense against the Department of Justice allegations about ebook price fixing yesterday from a company that had already settled in the case: Barnes & Noble. The bookseller's Vice President of Digital Content, Theresa Horner, told the court that her company was in the process of negotiating agency pricing deals with publishers well before Apple came into the ebook market.
The DOJ has repeatedly attempted to paint Apple as the nefarious ringleader conspiring with book publishers to raise prices on ebooks. During her court appearance, Ms. Horner essentially shut down that argument by noting that Apple had nothing to do with Barnes & Noble talking wi
