At 1520 pages, 783,137 words and a retail price of $120, the latest edition of the King James Version of the Bible could be one of the saviours of the Australian bookshop industry.
Too unwieldy to post and too precious to risk losing in the mail, the Bible printed by Oxford University Press to mark the 400th anniversary of the tome, is flying off shelves.
The commemorative edition is entirely faithful to the 1611 original, replete with Jacobean spelling, arcane prose and more than 350 printing errors. The typeface, however, has been changed from Gothic to Times Roman, amid concerns that new readers would be unable to decipher the old font.
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