It looks like Another Bad China Day for Apple. The company faces accusations of kowtowing to China after it removed an application from its app store in China today that includes books banned in the country—just days after Apple issued a long and contrite apology to Chinese customers following near daily onslaughts by state media. (Apple hasn’t responded to a request for comment.)

It looks like Another Bad China Day for Apple $AAPL. The company faces accusations of kowtowing to China after it removed an application from its app store in China today that includes books banned in the country—just days after Apple issued a long and contrite apology to Chinese customers following near daily onslaughts by state media. (Apple hasn’t responded to a request for comment.)
But the removal of bookstore jingdian shucheng (or classics bookstore), may just be the beginning of Apple giving in to Chinese censorship in order to preempt another attack. We asked earlier (paywall).
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The Financial Times reports that the developer of jingdian shucheng, Hao Peiqiang, said he wasn’t given a reason for the removal but suspects it was the inclusion of three titles by the Chinese political activist Wang Lixiong that are banned in China. These include one on China’s policies toward Tibet (Tianzang), the possible collapse of the Chinese government (Yellow Peril) and a memoir of Wang’s travels in the western region of Xinjiang, home to a separatist movement (My Western Territory, Your Eastern Land), according to the newspaper. The app and the books are available outside of China.
Here is a copy of the email Hao got from Apple, from his blog and posted on technology news site, the NextWeb.
