We were just flipping through this week's The New Yorker and came across an article you kids may find intriguing. In "The Good Book Business", Daniel Radosh takes a look at the big business of Bible publishing. How big's this business? Well, while there's no way to know exactly how many Bible are printed each year, Radosh's piece estimates that Americans spent nearly half-a-billion bones on twenty-five million Bibles in 2005.

Certainly this number has something to do with America's large Christian population. More important, however, is the ever-increasing diversification of Bible sales. Radosh writes:

[T]he general principle—that Scripture can be repackaged to meet the demands of an increasingly segmented market—is at the heart of the modern Bible-publishing industry.

This may come as no surprise to some readers, but did you kids know that this Bible-publishing industry got its start back in the revolutionary 60s with Good News for Modern Man? We didn't. In fact, there's loads about the Bible publishing world we didn't know we wanted to know. We suspect you'll find something new, too.