IT IS NOT UNUSUAL...
  It is not unusual to hear about books that have hit the bestseller list, selling a few hundred thousand copies. It's much rarer to come across books that have sold more than a million copies, and rarer still to find books that have passed the ten-million mark in sales. It staggers the mind, then, to discover that the number of Bibles sold reaches into the billions. That's right, billions! More copies have been produced of its entirety as well as selected portions than any other book in history. Some will argue that in a designated month or year more of a certain book was sold. However, no other book even begins to compare to the Scriptures in terms of its total circulation.
According to the United Bible Societies' 1998 Scripture Distribution Report, in that year alone member organizations were responsible for distributing 20.8 million complete Bibles and another 20.1 million testaments. When portions of Scripture (i.e. complete books of the Bible) and selections (short extracts on particular themes) are also included, the total distribution of copies of the Bible or portions thereof in 1998 reaches a staggering 585 million - and these numbers only include Bibles distributed by the United Bible Societies!
To put it another way, if you lined up all the people who received Bibles or Scripture selections during 1998, and handed a Bible to one of them every five seconds, it would take more than 92 years to do what just the United Bible Societies accomplished during 1998 alone!
[From: The New Evidence that demands a Verdict by Josh McDowell, Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1999].

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