Philly-Based Bible Printer Will Close and Lay Off 174 Due to Decreased Demand

[NeoGreen]

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/11/03/philly-based-bible-printer-will-close-and-lay-off-174-due-to-decreased-demand/

Philly-Based Bible Printer Will Close and Lay Off 174 Due to Decreased Demand
By Hemant Mehta, November 3, 2019

A Philadelphia-based printing company says it will lay off 174 workers and shut down the facility all because, after printing more than a billion bibles over the past century, their product just isn’t in demand anymore.

“They say the Bible business has really gone soft, and their warehouses are full,” said Wayne Cox, business representative for Graphic Communications Conference-Teamsters local union 4-C, based in Clifton Heights, which represents 150 of the workers, along with printers at other companies in central Pennsylvania. [LSC Communications] didn’t reply to an inquiry seeking comment.

When Cox began working there more than four decades ago, it seemed like a secure job since the Bible is always a best-seller. Maybe it was… until the internet came along. But this isn’t just about the decline of printed media. With shifting religious demographics, it’s not like people are eager to pick up a Bible, whether it’s at home or in a hotel room.

Big Dan Teague might need a new line of work...making money in the lord's service...

[Turbineguy]

1. The evangelicals are destroying Christianity.

There apparently is a limit to the number of scam-preachers that the system can support.

[Major Nikon]

5. Pretty safe to say Christianity would have died out thousands of years ago without evangelicals

The difference is now it will eventually die out in spite of them.

[safeinOhio]

2. Few Bibles get tossed out.

Another reason no is buying them. I don't know if they print a Red Letter Bible, but demand for those may be going up. If one only reads the words in red letters, there aren't as many loop holes.

[Major Nikon]

3. Thank you, Jesus

[awesomerwb1]

4. Thoughts and prayers

[Historic NY]

6. Wait what........

them thumpers are giving up

[Cartoonist]

7. Print is dead

I was in the printing business. Computers and the internet killed it. People can now print their own. Companies go online and stop printing catalogs.

Same with the Bible. A day doesn't go by without me seeing an ad for an online Bible.

[braddy]

8. An old business closing, it doesn't really say anything about all of the Bible printing competitors.

[MineralMan]

9. Most Bibles printed these days are produced in China.

There's an irony there...

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/october/bible-made-in-china.html

[uriel1972]

10. where's our resident deist or was it theist...

I can't keep up.

[MineralMan]

11. I don't know. I don't keep track of such things.

China prints lots and lots of books. They're pretty good at it, and were the first culture to print books in the first place.

They might as well print Bibles, too, although that might conflict with their atheism. I don't know. There's a rationalization for everything, I suppose.

[Igel]

12. I've known a lot of people

with Bibles on their tablets.

Others, instead of amassing translations and commentaries go to Biblehub or Biblegateway.

Heck, I found it easier to use the online sites than turn around and reach to the bookcase behind me for my Hebrew copy of the Torah, Greek NT, or some alternative translation that I acquired years ago.

[trotsky]

13. Yes, I'm sure it's just fine.

Your religion is still the dominant one, no need to worry about the increasing number of "nones," it's probably fake news. You keep reminding religious minorities of their place. Doing god's work, you are. /s