Murdoch’s good news of the world

A newsworthy item from the CNN Belief Blog:

It just so happens that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., which is weathering a storm of criticism around newspaper ethics, also owns the rights to the world’s best-selling English Bible, the New International Version.

Could this lead to an explosion in sales of the NRSV or ESV?

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