Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1905 — Best Selling Book in the World. [ARTICLE]

Best Selling Book in the World.

The Bible is the best selling book in the world. It leads, and by a long interval, all other publications in copies purchased in the ordinary channels of trade, without regard to what may be called the official distribution.. Every bookstore which undertakes to carry a full line of stock sells the Bible. Several important corporations confine themselves to the manufacture and sale of Bibles, and others find In the Bible their leading feature. Of no other book can this be said. Speaking some time ago of the Insatiable demand for the Bible as an article of merchandise, an oflicer of the Methodist Book Concern. which till recently issued cheep editions of the Bible, said: *TJk eali puiflisherp, we have to keep watoh of the sale of books In general. even tbe most popular, so as not to gat eyeretoOtoad. Bat this never occurs in pfitoUng the Bible. We just keep the pihbses steadily- at work, and if we haggxm to find that we have 4<V--000 or 50,000 copies on hand it gives ue no uneasiness. We are sure to sell them, and we go straight ahead printing."—Century.