Fireside Publishing

The company was started in 1970 as a division of DeVore & Sons Inc. which already had many years experience publishing KJV and Masonic Bibles.
In 1970 Fireside was one of the original licensees of the New American Bible Catholic text, which has become the most widely used Catholic Bible in the USA. Fireside was officially the first publisher of the NAB edition, as it was a Fireside New American Bible that was first off the press in 1970.
Throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s, Fireside became one of the leading publishers of English Catholic Family Bibles in the USA, selling to Catholic parishes and schools.
"Catholic churches and schools account for a large part of the company's business" DeVore says.
They also publish a range of Douay Rheims Version Bibles for traditional Catholics and Sagrada Bibles for Spanish speakers.
In 2004, Firside announced that it would launch a Catholic Youth Bible. A leading competitor, Saint Mary's Press, had published a Catholic Youth Bible since 1999, and this title now accounted for a third of its sales.
Saint Mary's Press unsucessfully sued Fireside Publishing for trademark infringement action.
Manufacturing
Fireside conscientiously avoids printing Bibles in China, although apparently other Bible publishers do not.
"In response to cost and competitive pressures, many publishers are producing Bibles in China. Fireside Catholic Publishing cannot with good corporate conscience, produce Bibles in a country where Roman Catholic clergy are regularly arrested and jailed, and government-sponsored persecution of Roman Catholics and the Catholic Church in China continues."
They state that they will only produce Bibles in countries where all people are allowed to freely practice their faith.

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