Harry Potter vs The Bible

I was curious as to what Xae said in his blog the other day about the Harry Potter books rivaling the Bible in ammount of copies sold. So I did a Google search…

According to Drink from the Furry Cup:

It was announced today that the number of copies sold of ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ have over taken sales figures for the previous all time best seller ‘The Bible’. The author of ‘The Bible’, God, admitted to being “a bit miffed” about this.

Now, while this site is a fictional, satirical news-reporter, the article is so funny, it’s really worth a read. I kept looking at the lists, and came up with another page, this time, IPL FARQ and came up with this:

“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.”

That’s a pretty impressive number, and I think its bigger than that of the HP books…