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Originally Posted by Jetisr
Actually, no. Only 6 books sold more than a 100 million copies and your precious bible is no where among them.
If that's what you call inspirational, I'd hate to see what you find horrible.
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Hi, Retard!
Care to try again? Most Bibles aren't sold, but given away.
http://agards-bible-timeline.com/q10_bible-facts.html
According to statistics from Wycliffe International, the Society of
Gideons, and the International Bible Society, the number of new Bibles that are sold, given away, or otherwise distributed in the United States is about 168,000 per day.
How about this:
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Calculating how many Bibles are sold in the United States is a virtually impossible task, but a conservative estimate is that in 2005 Americans purchased some twenty-five million Bibles—twice as many as the most recent Harry Potter book. The amount spent annually on Bibles has been put at more than half a billion dollars.
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In some ways, this should not be surprising. According to the Barna Group, an evangelical polling firm, 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.
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/archive/200...#ixzz1hsIEkNpf
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