Most copies of Gutenberg’s printed Bibles went to monasteries in universities go in Bible was sold to a wealthy private individual copies are known to have sold for 30 florins like dollars this is what they called her money about three years of wages for clerk the time if we look at today’s wages in Worcester and at the pay of a clerk in retail say at $12 per hour working 25 hours a week 30 weeks a year that way to make a sale of Gutenberg‘s printable Bible at $27,000 dollars of today’s money why would someone spend such money on a printed copy?