Inspiration to go: Bible groups launch m-commerce site for scripture buys

The American Bible Society and the Bible Societies of Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales, Russia and South Africa have launched an international direct-to-consumer mobile Internet site for delivering the Bible to mobile phone subscribers.

The Bible societies worked with ChristianMobile, creators of the VirtualBible, the first Bible delivered to a mobile phone by way of a premium sms-text message, to implement the Bible societies` direct-to-consumer mobile internet site, wapbibles.com/.

The service enables mobile phone users in more than 130 countries across all mobile networks to purchase and download the Bible on their mobile phones by logging on to wapbibles.com with a mobile phone.

The service utilizes a global billing solution with the best payment method dynamically presented to the consumer. Once in the site, a customer can choose the payment method to pay for a Bible download, such as direct operator billing, Premium SMS, credit or debit card and PayPal.