a.k.a. The Gideons
–founded in Boscobel, Wisconsin.
Founded as an early para–church organization, the Gideons is an evangelical Protestant organization. Dedicate to distributing copies of the Bible—in over 80 language and more than 175 countries.
The Gideons seem to have an affinity for hotel and motel–room distribution.
60–70+ million copies were distributed per year 2006, 2007, and 2008. Approximately 1.5 billion bibles have apparently been distributed since 1908, when Gideon bible distribution commenced.