Why are some Bibles free but others cost money?”
Most major modern translations and texts are copyrighted to preserve the text and generate income to support ongoing Bible research and administration. Our distribution agreements for copyrighted texts require that we pay royalties for each copy distributed. When we are required to sell a Bible text to cover royalty costs, we’ve tried to keep our prices as low as possible for our user’s sake. However, some Bible texts (for example, the KJV) are in public domain – they are freely available for Olive Tree to convert and provide for free. We are always willing to look into providing public domain texts as free downloads for the BibleReader; if you know of a Bible text that you’d like to see in the BibleReader, please e-mail us and we’ll check into its availability.
