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