LDS edition of the Bible are included in footnotes, with longer excerpts included in an appendix. Lastly, the edition contains bible maps and a gazetteer. In 1999, color photographs from the Holy Land were added. None of the LDS-specific supplements in the edition claim doctrinal authority: only the text of the King James Version (and the other standard works) is considered canonical by the LDS Church. The publication of the English-language LDS edition of the Bible was overseen by apostle Thomas S. Monson, who later became the President of the Church. The English-language edition has been described as portraying a "strongly conservative" version of Mormonism
The Books of the Bible Biblica is developing a Spanish-language version of "The Books of the Bible" using the Nueva Versión Internacional entitled "Los Libros de la Biblia". Zondervan is planning to release a trade edition of "The Books of the Bible" in the fall of 2012. In its 2007 "Bible and Bible Reference Survey," "Preaching.com" called "The Books of The Bible" "one of the most interesting [Bibles published] this year," and predicted that the format changes would "aid reading and seeing the more natural divisions in the text which are often obscured by the chapter and verse divisions." A review in the journal Themelios