[ProfCrash]

For the record, you can buy Mein Kampf from Amazon and probably many other bookstores in the US. There are some countries where new copies cannot be printed and sold, Germany, but used copies can be sold and you can legally own a copy.

There are books published that tell people how to make bombs, drugs, and on many other illegal activities. The act of writing the book is not illegal. The content is not illegal. Doing what is described in the book is illegal.

I would also point out that in this internet era this information is out there for folks even if it is not sold as a book on Amazon.

Amazon has every right to make a business decision not to sell certain types of books. This is one book I have no problem with Amazon chosing not to sell. I have no problem with people calling, emailing, and posting that they think Amazon should not sell this book because of the material.

I would have a problem if someone said that writing such a book is illegal. Yes, the content material is awful. Yes the act described is abhorant. But freedom of speech is just that, freedom of speech. People dressed in white sheets with pointy hats are allowed to walk down the streets advocating racists beliefs. They piss me off and promote something I find to be abhorant but they get to do it because freedom of speech is something guarenteed in the Constitution. This twit gets to write his book. We get to use the power of the free market and our voices to tell Amazon we don't want them to sell his book.

In the end the voices of the many were louder then the one twits voice. The combination of free speech and the threat to withhold money won the day. The system worked.