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Long but amazuing article on bible sales in America.
Some quotes:
"the Bible is the best-selling book of the year, every year"
"forty-seven per cent of Americans read the Bible every week. But other research has found that ninety-one per cent of American households own at least one Bible—the average household owns four—which means that Bible publishers manage to sell twenty-five million copies a year of a book that almost everybody already has."
"Have you ever had a white stain appear underneath the arms of your favorite dark blouse? Don’t freak out. You can quickly give deodorant spots the boot. Just grab a spare toothbrush, dampen with a little water and liquid soap, and gently scrub until the stain fades away. As you wash away the stain, praise God for cleansing us from all the wrong things we have done. (1 John 1:9) "
'“2:52 Boys Bible: The Ultimate Manual” promises “gross and gory Bible stuff.” In the “Rainbow Study Bible,” each verse is color-coded by theme. “The Promise Bible” prints every one of God’s promises in boldface. And “The Personal Promise Bible” is custom-printed with the owner’s name (“The LORD is Daniel’s shepherd”), home town (“Woe to you, Brooklyn! Woe to you, New York!”), and spouse’s name (“Gina’s two breasts are like two fawns”).'
"the Bible is the best-selling book of the year, every year"
"forty-seven per cent of Americans read the Bible every week. But other research has found that ninety-one per cent of American households own at least one Bible—the average household owns four—which means that Bible publishers manage to sell twenty-five million copies a year of a book that almost everybody already has."
"Have you ever had a white stain appear underneath the arms of your favorite dark blouse? Don’t freak out. You can quickly give deodorant spots the boot. Just grab a spare toothbrush, dampen with a little water and liquid soap, and gently scrub until the stain fades away. As you wash away the stain, praise God for cleansing us from all the wrong things we have done. (1 John 1:9) "
'“2:52 Boys Bible: The Ultimate Manual” promises “gross and gory Bible stuff.” In the “Rainbow Study Bible,” each verse is color-coded by theme. “The Promise Bible” prints every one of God’s promises in boldface. And “The Personal Promise Bible” is custom-printed with the owner’s name (“The LORD is Daniel’s shepherd”), home town (“Woe to you, Brooklyn! Woe to you, New York!”), and spouse’s name (“Gina’s two breasts are like two fawns”).'
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Date: 2006-12-15 13:03 (UTC)From:My own Bibles include one old standard I think I either bought for 1SEK at a yard sale or actually got from school in some sort of mishap, one little Gideonite green one - New Testament only - we got in the military and which I took home because I didn't want to have it around nor wanted to throw it away and one of the newest, annotated translations - the "2000"-version - I of course got as a present from Dad. And I have the KJV in electronic text format on the computer.
I think the issue of which translation makes it important to churches to hand them out freely so potential converts and current believers get the "best" version. Some people will pay for more elaborate versions, but they should be willing to pay a lot. I mean, a decent family bible of impressive size should cost at least as much as an impressive atlas, and people shell out hundreds of euros for those. But such a Bible is a generational investment, nothing people buy every decade or so. I think the family Bible my mother inherited is at least 150 years old and my father's is older than that.