Does anyone profit from the bible?

The publisher gets paid, as well as any agent or contributors to the publishing process. The rest goes to the copyright holder(s) on that particular translation, if there is one.

No one has a copyright to the text of the book known as the Bible. A work has to be copyrighted by the author, and is only good for some 72 years (if I recall correctly), and since the oldest parts of the Bible were written down during the Babylonian exile around 400-500 BCE, then no one can get a copyright for the text.

What you CAN copyright is a particular edition's presentation -- the art work, the illustrations, the maps, etc. The stuff that is not in the text itself.

I suppose that a particular translation, if substantially different than existing translations, could be copyrighted. Not sure.

The publisher of a particular edition would get the profits.

It's way more profitable to start a mega-church and pretend to heal people, and pretend to help the poor, then just keep the donations for yourself, like so many "men of God" do.

Open the book, find the publisher, That's who gets the money. I think legally, any document over fifty years old is considered public domain in-so-far as the copy-write is not renewed. No one holds the copy-write to the documents that make up the Bible, though various versions and recent translations of the Bible often have one. Theoretically, you could translate and publish your own version of the Bible and make a profit, as many already have.

Oh yes indeed...wonder what Jesus thinks of that!

The New World Translation - the Watchtower Society does not charge for a copy of their translation - donations are sent to the society to make more bibles. There is absolutely no profit making on it and the quality is excellent.

It goes to the publisher. Like any other book.

But there is a problem that you got to have a 10% difference from all other bibles to be able to sell them. That's why we have some weird translations.

Some versions are copyright. NIV is held by Zondervan Publishers and NASB by Lochman Foundation. NIV is a very big money maker.

lol people making BILLIONS from religions :) they are using them in bad way for money purpose

Not the rainforest thats for sure....

well there would be a lot of unemployed pastors without it