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If the Swedish Bible 2000 isn't copyright protected and you put effort into it creating an EPUB, why don't you put it up to some server? In general, a free Christian e-book library hopefully will develop over time (many existing individuals who have online material repositories refuse that), or at least general purpose e-book hosters could be considered.
Be careful, the idea of the website you've obtained the Bible 2000 text from might be to make some changes to the original text from the state project in order to establish new copyright protection.
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As I have stated earlier in this tread, the Bible 2000 is ©, but the text is free for smaller citations and in it's entirety
for personal use. The authors may have been dead for about 2000 years, but translators have rights as well (same death + 70 years as authors here in Denmark and Sweden). And while any one can grab their own copy as needed, distributing that copy to friends and neighbours is a c opyright infringement. Any personal feelings, taxpaying and citizenship, as well as the sayings of long dead persons is futile and have nothing to do with the laws of the human society as of today.
Ideally the Bible (and all the other great basic texts of humanity like the Quran, Rig Veda and you name it) should be free, and so they are - if you kan read them in their original languages.
Regards,
Kim