Are more Bible versions bad for the Good Book?

If you stacked all the Bibles sitting in American homes, the tower
would rise 29 million feet, nearly 1,000 times the height of Mount
Everest.

More than 90 percent of American households own a Bible
and the average family owns three, according to pollsters at the Barna
Group. The American Bible Society hands out 5 million copies of the
scriptures each year; 1.5 billion Gideon Bibles are available in hotel
rooms worldwide.

Scripture outsells the latest diet fads, murder
mysteries and celebrity bios year after year. Evangelical publishers
alone sold an estimated 20 million Bibles in recession-battered 2009,
raking in about $500 million in sales, according to Michael Covington,
information and education director of the Evangelical Christian
Publishers Association.