The Telegraph reports how Apple has been accused of censoring the iPad book chart after four pornographic titles mysteriously disappeared from the bestseller list.

Four erotic titles for the iPad featured in the top 10 on Monday morning. However, these all disappeared simultaneously and have been replaced with less risqué books by the afternoon. Book chart analysts said it was unlikely that all the erotic titles could have dropped out of the list at the same moment without being deliberately removed.

It is not the first time that Apple has censored such material – the company embarked on a “great porn purge” in February, ridding its iPhone App Store of all “overtly sexual content”.

Steve Jobs, chief executive, announced in April that he wanted the newly-launched iPad to remain free of pornographic applications. The crackdown was labelled “political correctness gone mad” by some bloggers. Apple declined to comment on the disappearance of the pornographic novellas from the book chart yesterday.

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