Best-Seller
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annundrielBecause I have the time, I've finally started going through the copies of The New Yorker I've been getting since Christmas. Which basically means that right now I'm working my way through their December 18 issue. The whole point is to expand my knowledge, so I'm reading anything that looks interesting, no matter the content. Basically this means that I'm never going to catch up with the actual subscription.
Anyway. In the December 18 issue there's an article by Daniel Radosh called "The Good Book Business: Why Publishers Love the Bible." What I found most interesting was this:
"The familiar observation that the Bible is the best-selling book of all time obscures a more startling fact: the Bible is the best-selling book of the year, every year. [...] Bible publishers manage to sell twenty-five million copies a year of a book that almost everybody already has."
I totally believe it. Who knows how many bibles my dad actually owns, all with their own purpose. But at the same time, it's interesting to actually see the numbers.
There is also, apparently, an audio Bible with Samuel L. Jackson as God. ("I've had it with these motherfuckin' snakes in my motherfuckin' garden!")
Anyway. In the December 18 issue there's an article by Daniel Radosh called "The Good Book Business: Why Publishers Love the Bible." What I found most interesting was this:
"The familiar observation that the Bible is the best-selling book of all time obscures a more startling fact: the Bible is the best-selling book of the year, every year. [...] Bible publishers manage to sell twenty-five million copies a year of a book that almost everybody already has."
I totally believe it. Who knows how many bibles my dad actually owns, all with their own purpose. But at the same time, it's interesting to actually see the numbers.
There is also, apparently, an audio Bible with Samuel L. Jackson as God. ("I've had it with these motherfuckin' snakes in my motherfuckin' garden!")
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Date: 2007-03-17 11:55 pm (UTC)As for the sales, it comes as no surprise for me. The main reason for this being that I live with a theology major. In my two classes that I've taken personally, I've been required two separate versions, not to mention the Catholic Study Bible used in confirmation classes and the one that I used to take to Bible study in the mornings. I alone have four Bibles and I'm not all that horribly devout. It's a little ridiculous.
Hope break is treating you well!
Happy St. Pat's!
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Date: 2007-03-18 12:01 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-03-18 11:23 pm (UTC)And my mom always said she'll never subscribe to the New Yorker again because she spent all her time reading and then felt guilty when she didn't read everything. They should offer a half subscription or just get a years worth and then skip a year.