The government presented as evidence an e-mail exchange on Jan. 24, 2010, between Jobs and News Corp executive James Murdoch. News Corp is the parent company of HarperCollins.
Jobs had written, "Throw in with Apple and see if we can all make a go of this to create a real mainstream e-books market at $12.99 and $14.99."
But Apple attorney Snyder said that the e-mail was selectively chosen and, in context of the full letter, does not show wrongdoing. In another part of the e-mail, one of 15 e-mails exchanged between Jobs and Murdoch, the late Apple executive appears doubtful about changes to the e-books market.
"Heck, Amazon is selling these books at $9.99, and who knows maybe they are right and we will fail even at $12.99," Jobs wrote to Murdoch. "But we're willing to try at the prices we proposed. We are not willing to try at higher prices, because we are pretty sure we'll all fail."
The government spent more than 11 / 2 hours presenting e-mails, travel itinerary, handwritten notes and phone logs on a slide deck.
At one point, Lawrence Buterman, a lawyer at the Justice Department, highlighted a Wall Street Journal interview from June 2010. When asked by a reporter why anyone would buy an e-book for $14.99 when Amazon was selling them for $9.99, Jobs responded: "That won't be the case," adding that "the prices will be the same."
The next day, Simon & Schuster's then-general counsel Elsa Riven sent an e-mail to her chief executive, Carolyn Reidy, calling Jobs's remarks "incredibly stupid." Reidy is expected to testify Tuesday.