1% vs 24%
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The first has a lot to do with the decline of gatekeeping institutions. They're addicted to performance marketing. With a lot of publishers, they won't even talk to an author unless they have about 10k followers on a platform. (Which of course begs the question what the hell the would-be author needs the publisher for if they already have a fan base.) Like the music and entertainment industries, they're circling the drain because they have no idea how to foster up-and-comers like they used to. What they keep doubling down on is celebrity books. Which can't hold a candle to, say, another Rowling. But they don't know how to find that person.
As to the second, no idea.
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Volume increase or $$$? (My guess the latter)
How much of that increase is due to a popular grifter selling one for $100?
Only non-witches get due process.
- Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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Volume increase or $$$? (My guess the latter)
How much of that increase is due to a popular grifter selling one for $100?
Volume increase or $$$? (My guess the latter)
It appears to be volume.
https://cbn.com/news/us/bible-sales-are-skyrocketing-whats-going. (I linked to this site, as I don't have access to the WSJ which is where I believe the data comes from).
I was only joking
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I think that for sure, general reading is down overall, which is unfortunate. Too much "competition" for time among people.
People spend X hours per day on social media, video games, etc. which years ago, some of it would have been reading.
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Volume increase or $$$? (My guess the latter)
It appears to be volume.
https://cbn.com/news/us/bible-sales-are-skyrocketing-whats-going. (I linked to this site, as I don't have access to the WSJ which is where I believe the data comes from).
@Doctor-Phibes said in 1% vs 24%:
Volume increase or $$$? (My guess the latter)
It appears to be volume.
https://cbn.com/news/us/bible-sales-are-skyrocketing-whats-going. (I linked to this site, as I don't have access to the WSJ which is where I believe the data comes from).
From the article:
The WSJ crunched the numbers and found Bible sales increased from 9.7 million in 2019 to 14.2 million in 2023. In the first 10 months of 2024, 13.7 million copies were sold, with still two months left to count.
Maybe it's seeing the candidates being Biden, Trump, and Kamala are making folks look for a higher power to save them? Or Gen Z is just naturally being more interested in religion... it seems generations are on a pendulum in terms of fashion, religion, social media... Maybe Generation Alpha will save us all.
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It's an old joke that The Bible is the most purchased and least read book in history.
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Volume increase or $$$? (My guess the latter)
How much of that increase is due to a popular grifter selling one for $100?
Volume increase or $$$? (My guess the latter)
How much of that increase is due to a popular grifter selling one for $100?
Do you let him color all your thinking? Between this and the crash thread it would seem all your roads lead to Trump.
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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@Doctor-Phibes said in 1% vs 24%:
Volume increase or $$$? (My guess the latter)
It appears to be volume.
https://cbn.com/news/us/bible-sales-are-skyrocketing-whats-going. (I linked to this site, as I don't have access to the WSJ which is where I believe the data comes from).
From the article:
The WSJ crunched the numbers and found Bible sales increased from 9.7 million in 2019 to 14.2 million in 2023. In the first 10 months of 2024, 13.7 million copies were sold, with still two months left to count.
Maybe it's seeing the candidates being Biden, Trump, and Kamala are making folks look for a higher power to save them? Or Gen Z is just naturally being more interested in religion... it seems generations are on a pendulum in terms of fashion, religion, social media... Maybe Generation Alpha will save us all.
@Doctor-Phibes said in 1% vs 24%:
Volume increase or $$$? (My guess the latter)
It appears to be volume.
https://cbn.com/news/us/bible-sales-are-skyrocketing-whats-going. (I linked to this site, as I don't have access to the WSJ which is where I believe the data comes from).
From the article:
The WSJ crunched the numbers and found Bible sales increased from 9.7 million in 2019 to 14.2 million in 2023. In the first 10 months of 2024, 13.7 million copies were sold, with still two months left to count.
Maybe it's seeing the candidates being Biden, Trump, and Kamala are making folks look for a higher power to save them? Or Gen Z is just naturally being more interested in religion... it seems generations are on a pendulum in terms of fashion, religion, social media... Maybe Generation Alpha will save us all.
Good observation. The pendulum seems to apply to pretty much everything. I could imagine that the isolation of modern life could drive younger folks to find something a bit more personal and uplifting.
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Volume increase or $$$? (My guess the latter)
How much of that increase is due to a popular grifter selling one for $100?
Do you let him color all your thinking? Between this and the crash thread it would seem all your roads lead to Trump.
Well the crash thread is simply a reaction of our President spouting off nonsense about a crash he doesn't really know about. But we know the man likes to talk and make shit up on the fly, it's just insanely inappropriate is all.
For this, my first thought was wondering how many of the offensive Trump Bibles sold since that was the big bible news story in the last year or two. I couldn't find a number, but I'd imagine it was a couple hundred thousand, which adds to but doesn't make up most of these new bible sales.
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It seems to me when Trump says something really stupid that makes the news and is all over social media and we comment on it that’s not us living on the highway to Trump. That’s responding to events.
Also my heavily recycled formulaic joke which has been told by easily half a dozen people here mentioned Hegseth not Trump.
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Volume increase or $$$? (My guess the latter)
How much of that increase is due to a popular grifter selling one for $100?
Do you let him color all your thinking? Between this and the crash thread it would seem all your roads lead to Trump.
Rent free.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in 1% vs 24%:
Volume increase or $$$? (My guess the latter)
It appears to be volume.
https://cbn.com/news/us/bible-sales-are-skyrocketing-whats-going. (I linked to this site, as I don't have access to the WSJ which is where I believe the data comes from).
From the article:
The WSJ crunched the numbers and found Bible sales increased from 9.7 million in 2019 to 14.2 million in 2023. In the first 10 months of 2024, 13.7 million copies were sold, with still two months left to count.
Maybe it's seeing the candidates being Biden, Trump, and Kamala are making folks look for a higher power to save them? Or Gen Z is just naturally being more interested in religion... it seems generations are on a pendulum in terms of fashion, religion, social media... Maybe Generation Alpha will save us all.
@Doctor-Phibes said in 1% vs 24%:
Volume increase or $$$? (My guess the latter)
It appears to be volume.
https://cbn.com/news/us/bible-sales-are-skyrocketing-whats-going. (I linked to this site, as I don't have access to the WSJ which is where I believe the data comes from).
From the article:
The WSJ crunched the numbers and found Bible sales increased from 9.7 million in 2019 to 14.2 million in 2023. In the first 10 months of 2024, 13.7 million copies were sold, with still two months left to count.
Maybe it's seeing the candidates being Biden, Trump, and Kamala are making folks look for a higher power to save them? Or Gen Z is just naturally being more interested in religion... it seems generations are on a pendulum in terms of fashion, religion, social media... Maybe Generation Alpha will save us all.
That might be a bit shallow. I prefer to think that young people are searching for answers and a way to live a better life.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in 1% vs 24%:
Volume increase or $$$? (My guess the latter)
It appears to be volume.
https://cbn.com/news/us/bible-sales-are-skyrocketing-whats-going. (I linked to this site, as I don't have access to the WSJ which is where I believe the data comes from).
From the article:
The WSJ crunched the numbers and found Bible sales increased from 9.7 million in 2019 to 14.2 million in 2023. In the first 10 months of 2024, 13.7 million copies were sold, with still two months left to count.
Maybe it's seeing the candidates being Biden, Trump, and Kamala are making folks look for a higher power to save them? Or Gen Z is just naturally being more interested in religion... it seems generations are on a pendulum in terms of fashion, religion, social media... Maybe Generation Alpha will save us all.
That might be a bit shallow. I prefer to think that young people are searching for answers and a way to live a better life.
@Doctor-Phibes said in 1% vs 24%:
Volume increase or $$$? (My guess the latter)
It appears to be volume.
https://cbn.com/news/us/bible-sales-are-skyrocketing-whats-going. (I linked to this site, as I don't have access to the WSJ which is where I believe the data comes from).
From the article:
The WSJ crunched the numbers and found Bible sales increased from 9.7 million in 2019 to 14.2 million in 2023. In the first 10 months of 2024, 13.7 million copies were sold, with still two months left to count.
Maybe it's seeing the candidates being Biden, Trump, and Kamala are making folks look for a higher power to save them? Or Gen Z is just naturally being more interested in religion... it seems generations are on a pendulum in terms of fashion, religion, social media... Maybe Generation Alpha will save us all.
That might be a bit shallow. I prefer to think that young people are searching for answers and a way to live a better life.
When I taught in Oz, all the ABC kids wanted to talk about was Chinese history. All the time. And it was because their parents never talked about it.
Could be a similar phenomenon. Religion isn't exactly a staple of modern life for many folks today, but it's out there, and so maybe the kids grew up and got curious.
