Relgious book sale boom continues
• Christian Pop Culture , • The Da Vinci Code
More proof that religious publishing is booming. Religious books being so loosely defined as to include conspiracy fiction, lurid twaddle and self-help books with a gloss of piety.
As the owner of a used bookshop I'll buy Christian books of low quality, something I ordinarily won't do in other categories. It is one category where nothing is too simpleminded. (I do try to keep Christian hate books off the shelves.)
Top sellers on the fiction side include The Da Vinci Code, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, and Armageddon, all titles with a spiritual bent. "What we are looking at is unquestionably religious books becoming mainstream," said Albert N. Greco, the study group's statistician and a professor at Fordham University. "They are so hot that big chains like Barnes & Noble and mass merchandisers such as Wal-Mart are allocating more space."
Big Outlets Reap Most Of The Glory From Big Sellers Like "The Purpose-Driven Life."