What is the most printed book ever?

Answer 1

Why?

Answer 2

It's got to be the Bible, they've been printing it since about 1450 when the Printing press was invented. That's a lot of years of printing!

Answer 3

If you count all the various translations into different language, and all editions, the Bible remains not only the first book printed (Gutenberg's edition), but the most common book printed.

Answer 4

Probably a religious book like the bible or the koran, you could check with the Guinness book of Records. They have a web site too.

Answer 5

The Bible- or possibly Mao's Little Red Book ( not be confused with Prince's Little Red Corvette)
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a publication by one of the many cults? Moonies, Scientologists etc

Answer 6

the bible --- but how much of the book has everyone read --- or indeed --- do they really care ???? ( about the most printed book ; that is !) .
I'm not a bible basher --- and other than doing r.i at both levels of school ( but never really interested ) in the 'book' itself -- i can only assume it's well printed but under read .

Answer 7

Yeah I believe it's the bible because you have to think about a book that has been long in existence and very popular. They even have them in hotels, so yeah it has to be the bible.

Answer 8

Bestselling Books of All Time
There are thousands of books getting published each year, and there are many people who read them either to escape from the real world with the help of a fiction or to learn something new from a non-fiction book. Either way, we love to read books, no matter how much the Internet seems to change our reading habits. If you parents succeeded to make you love reading when you were very young, then you will probably never stop doing it. Holding a book in your hands somehow has its own, distinctive feeling, not comparable to sitting at the computer to read something on the computer or a mobile device.

Since - luckily - many of us still love reading, the question arises: which books are the most popular? Which books have mankind read most of the times? Which books are the bestselling books of all time? Well, we don't have accurate numbers on in how many copies the most popular books were sold all over the world. It would be hard to have such number, because as you will see from the list of bestselling books ever, there are some among them which were written in an era when book publishing did not existed - well, not in a sense like it exists in our time. We simply do not have accurate numbers, so to make a list of the bestselling books from the dawn of mankind to the 21st century is more likely a guess, an estimate that cannot be proven in all cases by objective, statistical data. The list on this page was published in The Top 10 of Everything by Russel Ash, which is probably the most often cited source on bestselling books.

The list contains books about religion as well as a book written for political reasons. But without analyzing the causes why the list looks as it does, let us just simply go over it, from the 10th to the 1st place.

10. In His Steps: "What Would Jesus Do?" by Rev. Charles Monroe Sheldon "Although virtually unknown today, American clergyman Charles Sheldon (1857-1946) achieved fame and fortune with this 1896 instructive religious treatise on moral dilemmas."

9. The Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann "This tale of sex, violence, and drugs by Jacqueline Susann (1921-74), first published in 1966, is perhaps surprisingly the world’s bestselling novel. Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind, which has achieved sales approaching 28,000,000, is its closest rival."

8. World Almanac "Having been published annually since 1868 (with a break from 1876 to 1886), this wide-ranging reference book has remained a constant bestseller ever since."

7. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care by Dr. Benjamin Spock "Dr. Spock’s 1946 manual became the bible of infant care for subsequent generations of parents. Most of the sales have been of the paperback edition of the book."

6. A Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard "Now forgotten, Hubbard’s polemic on the subject of labor relations was published in 1899 and within a few years had achieved these phenomenal sales, largely because many American employers purchased bulk supplies to distribute to their employees."

5. The McGuffey Readers by William Holmes McGuffey "Published in numerous editions from 1853, some authorities have put the total sales of these educational textbooks, originally compiled by American anthologist William Holmes McGuffey (1800-73), as high as 122,000,000. It has also been claimed that 60,000,000 copies of the 1879 edition were printed, but - since this is some 10,000,000 more than the entire population of the U.S. at that time - the publishers must have been extremely optimistic about its success."

4. The Guinness Book of Records "First published in 1955, The Guinness Book of Records stands out as the greatest contemporary publishing achievement. There have now been 37 editions in the UK alone (it was not published annually until 1964), as well as numerous foreign-language editions."

3. American Spelling Book by Noah Webster "First published in 1783, this reference book by the American man of letters Noah Webster (1758-1843) remained a bestseller in the U.S. throughout the 19th century."

2. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Little Red Book) "Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book could scarcely fail to become a bestseller: between the years 1966 and 1971 it was compulsory for every Chinese adult to own a copy."

1. The Bible "No one really knows how many copies of the Bible have been printed, sold, or distributed. The Bible Society’s attempt to calculate the number printed between 1816 and 1975 produced the figure of 2,458,000,000. A more recent survey, for the years up to 1992, put it closer to 6,000,000,000 in more than 2,000 languages and dialects. Whatever the precise figure, the Bible is by far the bestselling book of all time."

I think it is not suprising that The Bible is on top of the list. But what about the bestselling author of all time? The one whose books are the most popular? We have found the answer in The Guinness Book of Records concerning authors of fiction. The bestselling author in fiction is Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976), with 78 crime novels sold over 2 billion copies in the world, translated to 44 languages. She also wrote 6 romantic novels and, under the pen name Mary Westmacott, she wrote 19 plays, too.




but wait until I publish my own book!

Answer 9

Probably the bible or some kind of religious book.

Answer 10

I think its the Bible its been around for ever and translated into different languages and its constantly been rewritten

Answer 11

The Bible