The Most Influential Book

         Simply put, the BIBLE is the most influential book ever written. Not only is the Bible the best-selling book of all time, it is the best-selling book of the year every year

I was asked what book is the most influential to me. Of course the Bible itself is the most influential book.

         The Bible was the first book that Johannes Gutenberg printed in 1454. It is thought that he printed about 180 copies, known as the 42-line Bible, of which significant parts of 48 copies still survive. Gutenberg did not make any printing errors. Before Johannes Gutenberg invented his printing press in 1438, there were only about 30,000 books throughout the whole of Europe, nearly all Bibles or biblical commentary. By 1500, there were more than 9 million books. Today there are more than a trillion books. The world’s libraries store more than a 100 million original volumes, 24 million of those in the US Library of Congress. Amazon.com is the world’s biggest book store, holding some 3 million book titles (print and electronic, the latter which outsells the first mentioned). Sadly, almost a billion people around the world still cannot read.