VentureBeat observantly noticed that McGraw-Hill was axed from Apple's iPad launch event.

The awkward array of five logos used to be a tidy lineup of six. The day before the show, Apple removed McGraw-Hill, the 122-year-old publisher whose 61-year-old leader, Harold McGraw III — better known as Terry — prattled like a teenage schoolgirl about the tablet’s iPhone operating system on CNBC:

“They’ll make their announcement tomorrow on this one. We have worked with Apple for quite a while. And the Tablet is going to be based on the iPhone operating system and so it will be transferable. So what you are going to be able to do now is we have a consortium of e-books. And we have 95% of all our materials that are in e-book format on that one. So now with the tablet you’re going to open up the higher education market, the professional market. The tablet is going to be just really terrific.”

Insiders tell VentureBeat that as soon as Terry shot his mouth off, Jobs had the company cut from the presentation. Its unclear if McGraw was only wrist-slapped, or if he’s been removed from tablet plans entirely.

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