The Bible has definitely sold more then Shakspeare , according to the Guiness record books.
None. Shakespeare was not a bookseller. He did write a couple of books with the express purpose of offering them for sale. They were poems called Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. He arranged to have them published and sold by an old friend from Stratford, Richard Field.
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre will sell a maximum of 700 tickets to groundlings. The number of tickets sold is limited, not by space, but by fire regulation. They could pack a lot more into that space, and in Shakespeare's day, when they had no fire regulations, they did.
The world's best-selling fiction writer is the late Dame Agatha Christie (née Miller, later Lady Mallowan, 1890-1976), whose 78 crime novels have sold an estimated 2 billion copies in 44 languages. Agatha Christie (UK) also wrote 19 plays and, under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, six romantic novels.
The play Romeo and Juliet has never been copyrighted so anyone can print out a copy and sell it without permission from anyone. This means that innumerable copies have been produced over the last 400 years, and there is no record of how many. Someone has guessed around the 200,000,000,000 mark. Could be.
He has won one Oscar: as Best Actor for The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
Isaac Asimov wrote or edited more than 500 books. He wrote fiction and nonfiction. While best known for his science fiction, he wrote poetry, riddles, science text books, nonfiction for children, Bible commentaries, Shakespeare commentaries, and histories.
Millions. Millions of copies were sold just for the last book. There are almost enough books for every individual person on earth. They have been copied into more than 60 languages and in almost every country. They are the fastest and most sold books in the world except for the Bible.
The specific number of bible study books sold by Jimmy Swaggart is not readily available. Swaggart is known for his ministry and selling of religious materials, but the exact sales figures for his bible study books are not typically disclosed.
None. Shakespeare was not a bookseller. He did write a couple of books with the express purpose of offering them for sale. They were poems called Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. He arranged to have them published and sold by an old friend from Stratford, Richard Field.
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The bible has not only out printed the quran , but the bible has sold much more then the quran according to the Guinnes sbook of records.
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Ann.M.Martin
Either William Shakespeare or Agatha Christie, as they both sold between 2 and 4 billion books/plays!
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Another Answer: Though the above book had many copies sold, particularly in Spain, no book has sold more copies than the Bible in the history of literature.
Although many Bibles are given away freely, many are sold also. Considering that the estimated number of Bible sold/given away annually amounts to 4-6 times more copies that the next best sellers (Shakespeare, Guinness World Records, etc), IMHO it is the world's best seller. See link below:
None. Shakespeare was not a bookseller. He did write a couple of books with the express purpose of offering them for sale. They were poems called Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. He arranged to have them published and sold by an old friend from Stratford, Richard Field.