[Petronski]

First, there was always a great demand for them as seen by the popularity of the Wyclif translation. Second, it was the printing press (the first book ever printed was a Bible) that forced the Roman Catholics to adjust its tactics since they couldn't control the output anymore.

I've found more historically-accurate narratives inside Cracker Jack boxes.

[Mad Dawg]

(You must buy a very high quality of Cracker Jacks.

(Just sayin'.)

[fortheDeclaration]

[First, there was always a great demand for them as seen by the popularity of the Wyclif translation. Second, it was the printing press (the first book ever printed was a Bible) that forced the Roman Catholics to adjust its tactics since they couldn't control the output anymore.]

I've found more historically-accurate narratives inside Cracker Jack boxes.

And that is exactly why the Douay-Rheims was printed, to compete with the Geneva.

[fortheDeclaration]

Douay Bible
The original Douay Version, which is the foundation on which nearly all English Catholic versions are still based, owed its existence to the religious controversies of the sixteenth century. Many Protestant versions of the Scriptures had been issued and were used largely by the Reformers for polemical purposes. The renderings of some of the texts showed evident signs of controversial bias, and it became of the first importance for the English Catholics of the day to be furnished with a translation of their own, on the accuracy of which they could depend and to which they could appeal in the course of argument.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05140a.htm