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Will Books Be The Next To Go In Apples App Store Purge?
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Over the last month or so, Apple has clearly been on a mission to trim down the App Store to applications that are useful and family friendly. First, it removed thousands of sex-themed applications, and its also been making moves to crack down on overly simplistic cookie cutter apps. But there may be yet another segment of the App Store on the chopping block: Books. According to a recent report, books represent 27,000 of the App Stores 150,000 applications, making them the most abundant type of application on the App Store. And theyre becoming increasingly redundant.