Amazon Bans Encyclopedia — Again!

Mid-August of 2024, Amazon censored and banned ARMREG’s Holocaust Encyclopedia: Uncensored and Unconstrained from its sales websites. While Amazon routinely deletes titles without warning or explanation, the removal of books on sensitive topics is particularly alarming. This encyclopedia’s removal underscores a broader and disquieting trend of limiting discourse on subjects that influential pressure groups want to control tightly. Regardless of the reasons, this policy is inconsistent with the principles of liberty and intellectual freedom, ultimately hindering our understanding of history as opposed to helping it.

Moreover, this reactionary and hysterical “book-burning” mentality is only fueling the growing trend of questioning the mainstream Holocaust narrative. It fosters the perception that the proponents of this narrative must resort to censorship, because their arguments cannot withstand scrutiny. It is highly revealing that an objective and academically rigorous work like this encyclopedia is viewed as such a threat by the Guardians of the Holy Holocaust Scripture that they insist it must be extinguished by any means.

By restricting access to diverse perspectives on such a pivotal event of history, Amazon is not safeguarding Holocaust orthodoxy. Instead, this is adding fuel to the raging fires of skepticism threatening to consume the official Holocaust narrative, rather than correct it. As debates over historical remembrance and its abuse for ulterior purposes intensify, the blatant censorship of this book will exacerbate doubts about the credibility and veracity of the mainstream narrative, even for aspects where such skepticism may be unwarranted.

While Armreg Ltd, the Encyclopedia’s publishers, suffered a loss of revenue due to this lost stream of income, it was understood from the start that Amazon sooner or later would pull the plug on this book. In fact, it is surprising how long it took for them to react. The book was available on Amazon from mid-December 2023 until mid-August 2024, hence eight months, which is much longer than any other book skeptical of the orthodox narrative offered for sale on Amazon ever since that retail monster introduced its strict censorship policy back in March 2017.

This move having been expected, Armreg never advertised this sales venue, but rather tried to encourage everyone to buy it from their sales websites directly. While Amazon controls some 85% of all sales of new books in the U.S., they merely had a share of some 20% of sales for this item. When Amazon banned the book, Armreg soon noticed an increase in sales on their own websites. Hence, it looks like most customers simply switched from Amazon to Armreg, once Amazon’s trusted and convenient payment and delivery system was gone.

We didn’t sit idly, though. I had collected reports on typos, mistakes, deficiencies, and possible additions ever since the first print edition of the Encyclopedia had been published back in December 2023. So, I went back to the drawing board, and within a week we launched a slightly revised edition, most importantly with an updated bibliography that now features all the correct links of our new CODOH and Holocaust Handbooks websites. But lo and behold! It took Amazon only hours to take that edition down as well. I assume that the Lobby’s blockwarts were lying in wait. So, I give up, you win! We will do without Amazon.

For years I have been urging people to boycott Amazon. This is not just about them being the biggest censorship machine in the world, as I have described in detail in my documentary and book The Day Amazon Murdered Free Speech. Amazon murders more than just free speech. It devastates America’s retail middle class. It murders consumers choices. It destroys our ability to shop in our neighborhoods. It murders the free retail market and replaces it with a monopoly. It murders employment opportunities by forcing an ever-larger army of people to have to work for them, as there is no longer any option to work for the mom-and-pop shop at the corner, because it went belly up due to … Amazon.

I mean it: STOP BUYING FROM AMAZON!

I haven’t bought anything from them since 2018. I use them only as a product search engine, but once I know what I want, I use Google (or any other search engine such as DuckDuckGo or Bing to fight Google’s near monopoly) to find a DIFFERENT outlet for the same or an equivalent product. Many years ago, I used to boycott Walmart for their near-monopoly size and behavior. Not anymore. They are one of the few who are still trying to compete – albeit that chain ought to be renamed to some obvious Chinese name, because except for the food, anything else there seems to be made in China.

If people made smart and circumspect choices, we wouldn’t be in that position where near monopolies such as Amazon, Google and YouTube have a monopolized stranglehold on our society to such as degree that has never seen in the history of mankind. This situation is dangerous!

Get Your Copy – to Spite Amazon!

While Amazon may have a near monopoly on book sales in the U.S. – and not just in the U.S. – they aren’t the only bookseller. Most other outlets still offer ARMREG’s Holocaust Encyclopedia; just check book-price search engines such as www.FindBookPrices.com or www.BigWords.com for available options. Note that the “leading” book-price search engine www.BookFinder.com is controlled by Amazon; it will yield no results for books banned by Amazon!

The best option to get this encyclopedia is by buying it from the publishers directly. In fact, that’s what most customers have done: since its release, some 75% of all orders for this encyclopedia were placed on the publishers’ own websites. Armreg has shipping outlets in the UK, the U.S. and Australia, so shipping costs are usually very reasonable:

• HolocaustEncyclopedia.com
• NukeBook.org
• armreg.co.uk

All of the contents of this encyclopedia are accessible free of charge at the websites www.HolocaustEncyclopedia.com and www.NukeBook.org, where a free, interactive eBook version can be downloaded as well. Thousands of copies have already been downloaded, so the genie is already out of the bottle. And it is not going back!

Just a few weeks before Amazon pulled the plug on the Holocaust Encyclopedia, I copied all the book reviews that had been posted by buyers of the book, so we can publish them in the book-review section of this issue of Inconvenient History. Those reviews are no longer easily accessible on Amazon, and may be deleted soon, which is one more reason to preserve them for posterity here. They may not be thorough academic reviews as we prefer to publish them in this periodical, but they reflect the sentiments of actual customers.

PS: I just tried pulling up any reviews that may have been posted on www.GoodReads.com, but found none for this Encyclopedia. In fact, none of the ISBNs of this book yielded any results. Instead, GoodReads asked me to sign in using my Amazon account. When I search who controls www.GoodReads.com, here is what Wikipedia told me:

“Goodreads is an American social cataloging website and a subsidiary of Amazon…”

GoodReads will not allow any reviews to be posted on its websites for books that are banned by Amazon.

Did I mention that Amazon is a monster that needs to be taken down?