Are eBooks Next to Be Cut from Apple's App Store?

Yesterday TechCruch ran a speculative article wondering if–after trimming sexually explicit and a few other apps from the App store–Apple would hack into the 27,000 available eBooks in advance of the release of iBooks. The story is perhaps a bit alarmist, maybe even a little dangerous, though the author makes clear near the beginning that “I should make it clear that I haven’t heard anything about Apple removing the myriad book apps from the App Store.”