Christian Book Publishers receive a combined total of almost 250,000 manuscripts during a typical year with some of the 300 publishers receiving more than 10,000. On average about 5% of those submissions get published or approximately 12,000 titles a year. The average first printing of a book for a new author is just under 4,700 copies. (Christian Writers' Market Guide 2008, Sally Stuart, WaterBrook 2008)