[Krodg]

After the NT canon was determined it would be some 1000 years before a few people began to have printed Bibles available in their own language.

Any idea why that took so long?

[NeoCaveman]

Any idea why that took so long?

The printing press had yet to be invented. That would be why.

[IGNATIUS]

The movable type printing press was invented during the fifteenth century by a German Roman Catholic named Johann Gutenberg.He died a couple of decades before Luther was born.The Gutenberg Bible is reportedly the first major work printed in the West(about 1454).

A significant percentage of folks in Western Europe could not then read. Bible Book Stores did not make their appearance til the 20th century.