Feel free to skip this paragraph, it is just me explaining how I got to the question. Recently I won an Amazon gift card and used it to buy a copy of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. This inspired me to build a home altar with a Bible, a censure, the Catechism, some candles, a prayer book, a rosary box, etc. on it. Although I am a non-denominational Christian, I have a deep connection to Catholicism so I decided on Catholic stuff. As such I looked for the best Catholic translations and narrowed it down to the Douay-Rheims version and the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition. I am familiar with the RSV and its problems, so I decided on the DRV. (I will probably end up getting the RSV I was thinking of buying as well).
I went looking online to find a copy of the Douay-Rheims Bible and to my surprise, there is only one being sold at a reasonable price (and the different books of it being sold individually for some reason). So I was wondering, why is this version so hard to find? It is in the public domain and could be mass produced, and it has been updated recent enough to be readable so you would think it would be more wildly available, especially since there is an audience for it (Catholics who want something with a classic flavor and a more reliable than the modern translations). What are your thoughts?
Edited for spelling.
I went looking online to find a copy of the Douay-Rheims Bible and to my surprise, there is only one being sold at a reasonable price (and the different books of it being sold individually for some reason). So I was wondering, why is this version so hard to find? It is in the public domain and could be mass produced, and it has been updated recent enough to be readable so you would think it would be more wildly available, especially since there is an audience for it (Catholics who want something with a classic flavor and a more reliable than the modern translations). What are your thoughts?
Edited for spelling.
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