How Do They Stack Up?

NIV, TNIV are in demand. The NLTse not doing too back. I see ESV doing good too.

 

My local Christian bookstore has mostly NIV's and NLT's. Followed by NKJV, NASB, and KJV's. I had to buy my TNIV at Kmart because the Christian bookstore does not carry any.

 

I recently asked about that. The NIV still the bestseller. But I've noticed a good collection of the following:

NLT
ESV
TNIV
NRSV
HCSB
NKJV
NASB
KJV

Not in that order.

 

I usually don't go to "Christian" bookstores. It's too depressing to see all the bad books there by people like Osteen, Hinn, Copeland, T D Jakes, and worse. What's really depressing is when some of these authors like Osteen and Jakes are prominently displayed.

 

How Do They Stack Up?

Probably not very well, IMO.

Stacked flat, the first stack would probably be about 10 feet high, and the second would be about 6 feet high. Factor in the slightly 'padded' covers of the Old Living Bibles, and I suspect the results might approach :tonofbricks:were one to even so much as breathe on these 'stacks', and I am virtually sure the vibrations from slamming a door would bring them crashing down. [How do you even stack them 10 feet high (3 meters, for those of you who may not reside in the Unitd States), in the first place?]

BTW, the particular versions found in these stacks would have no bearing on this, not even if there was a stack of KJV Only.

I just couldn't (or wouldn't) pass up the multiple, obvious, and all too easy openings for this one! :laugh: :laugh:

Ed

 

May I ask why you want to know this? In most Christian bookstores that I have been to in the South it pretty much the standard fare. NIV, TNIV, NLT, NASB, ESV, KJV, NKJV, KJV..... And, in LifeWay stores the HCSB

 

No clue.

I've not been inside a Christian book store for a year and a half, and when I am there, I generally am looking for something specific, be it a Bible or otherwise. The closest I have come to such, recently, was at the SBC in Indianapolis at the Lifeway booth, and I did not take any particular note of Bibles, looking for a gift for my bride, not Bibles particularly, although I did grab an HSCB when they announced they were being sold for 75% off, so I got her one. I figured a $40 Bible for a 'sawbuck' was a pretty good deal. Sorry, I cannot help any more on your question.

Ed

 

In the Lifeway stores here in middle and east Tennessee, the majority of shelf space is dedicated to the KJV. I don't recall seeing the TNIV, but I'm going to Lifeway this week, so I'll check for you if you'd like.

 

Ok.

I'll let you know in a couple of days.

 

Ok Rippon, I'm back from my investigations. :laugh:

At Lifeway outside of Nashville, there were no TNIV's. I asked the salesman and he said they don't sell well enough to stock them, but they can order them. There were tons of NIV's, NLT's (no NLTse), quite a few ESV's, NASB's, KJV's, NKJV's, and HCSB's. But I think the NIV and NLT's were the biggest stocked versions by far. I was surprised. In other Lifeway Stores, I have seen mostly KJV's. I guess it just depends on which part of Tennesse you shop in.

Hope this helps. :wavey:

 

I didn't ask him if they stocked the TNIV in the first place. Ooops.
I don't know why they didn't stock the NLTse. I assume it didn't sell well either.
One thing I should mention, is that the store I went to was a smaller version of Lifeway. A store in a bigger city might have had those versions. But, east TN, where I live is pretty conservative and that may help to explain the low sales of those 2 particular versions, but I don't really know. Anyway, it was interesting to see how they "stacked" up. Thanks.

 

I think it depends on where in the South you are, maybe. I have never been in a Christian bookstore where there were mostly KJVs. I've been where there are quite a few of them, but never more than NIVs, which seem to be the most popular here.