| It is commonly accepted that the Bible is the | | | | amount spent on Bibles sales was estimated to |
| best-selling book of all time. What may not be so | | | | be more than half a billion dollars per year. The |
| well know is that in this new Internet age, the | | | | American Bible Society distributed over 60 million |
| Bibles popularity has continued to grow. The | | | | Bibles last year in the U.S. alone. The Gideon's |
| newest factoid is that the Bible is the best-selling | | | | distributed 59,460,000 Bibles worldwide last year. |
| book every year - year after year. | | | | This is an average of over one million Gideon |
| Back in 2005 a rough estimate set the number of | | | | Bibles every week, or about 113 per minute. One |
| Bibles sold at around twenty-five million copies. | | | | publisher has 350 different editions of the Bible in |
| That was just in the United States! Back then the | | | | print this season alone. |