Re:The Lindy Effect
by flohofwoe on Thursday September 14, 2023 @02:57AM
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"Mein Kampf" is actually a good example of the "negative" Lindy effect because it was only relevant in a single country for a very short time, and even in Nazi Germany it was only popular (in the sense that there was a copy in every household) because it was given out as wedding gift by the state (pretty much nobody could be arsed to actually buy and read that drivel when it came out).
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This is historical revisionism. Mein Kampf was a decently well selling book even before the Nazis came to power, with an estimated number of 241000 copies sold.
This is of course dwarfed by the number of copies distributed after the Nazis came to power.