Furtive ebook readers push Hitler's Mein Kampf up the charts

[Audley Strange]

I'm surprised the perpetually outraged middle class white women brigade are not outraged and demanding that Amazon be censured for promoting Anti-Jewish Ideology and demanding that the books all be burned for being heresy by word.

[pcCoder]

Why? Does owning a book containing unadulterated rubbish mean one agrees with what is written there? Should I be embarrassed to own a copy of the Bible, The Communist Manifesto, Watch Tower's Did Man get here by Evolution or Creation? or Ellen G. White's Your Home and Health?

I have that book (or had it, I don't know if I still do). I read it along side with researching the quotes within. Within the first 15 or so pages they took a quote from Origin of Species to make it seem up front that Darwin knew evolution was impossible, but completely excluded the remainder of the paragraph which he elaborated on it quite well.

[NineBerry]

Gott in Himmel!

Gott im Himmel!

And first noticed by Chris Faraone at Vocativ.com, Hitler's jailhouse book - particularly the $0.99 or £0.99 version - is proving quite popular on Amazon. Today, the cheap edition ebook is number 16 of the top bestsellers in the Society, Politics and Philosophy section of Amazon.co.uk and the sixth highest bestseller in the Politics and Government section of Amazon.com. A £2.49 edition is also number 8 on Apple's British iTunes store in Politics and Current Affairs, while the $2.99 version is 16th on the US iTunes list of most popular in Politics and Current Events.

So who's getting all the money? I hope it is rightly paid to the state of Bavaria who now own Hitler's copyrights.

[Hermit]

Why? Does owning a book containing unadulterated rubbish mean one agrees with what is written there? Should I be embarrassed to own a copy of the Bible, The Communist Manifesto, Watch Tower's Did Man get here by Evolution or Creation? or Ellen G. White's Your Home and Health?

I have that book (or had it, I don't know if I still do). I read it along side with researching the quotes within. Within the first 15 or so pages they took a quote from Origin of Species to make it seem up front that Darwin knew evolution was impossible, but completely excluded the remainder of the paragraph which he elaborated on it quite well.

It's cute, isn't it, from the very front to the very back. In my edition (1967), Chapter 1 is preceded by an illustration, part of which depicts Adam an Eve. Adam is clean-shaven, sports short back and sides and there are no nipples on his heroic chest. Eve's coiffure has been styled by the same hairdresser who did Sophia Loren's and there is not even a hint that she has breasts. The last chapter is followed by 248 footnotes to go with the text. Ten or more of them refer to various issues of the Reader's Digest magazine. Many others reference Time magazine and so on.

[colubridae]

Mein Kampf is much like the bible. mostly horrific shit, with (under extreme cherry picking) some 'nice' bits, national pride etc.

I've read both, they ought to be read by everyone.

It should be visible, generally, how easy it is to generate hatred. How to combat such hatred.

[pcCoder]

My mistake, the book I had was called "Life: How Did it Get Here, By Evolution or Creation?" (or something like that), so I may not be referring to the same book.