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Are you a blogger?  Would you like free and/or early release products from Olive Tree?  We are looking for bloggers who would like to write about the BibleReader.  We will give you free and early release products in exchange for you writting about them.  You can say what ever you want about the products, good or bad.  We only ask that you write at least 200 words.

Right now we are looking for bloggers to write about our new BlackBerry BibleReader beta and our new iPhone beta.  If you are a windows mobile, Palm, or Symbian user you time will come (patience is a virture)

If you are interested please email stephen@olivetree.com with a link to your blog and the device you have.  If you are a BlackBerry user can you let me know what product(s) you would like to write about.  If you are an iPhone user we have just one beta with a lot of Bibles and books in it.

Stephen

Olive Tree’s BibleReader for the iPhone is now available on Apple’s App Store!!  There are two bundles you can choose from.

• BibleReader for free
• ESV Study Bundle for BibleReader for $24.99

This version has a three tap verse chooser, continuous scrolling, and the books are store locally on your iPhone so that you don’t need an internet connection to read them.

For more information see our iPhone web page.

We are currently working on content management issues.  For more information on this you can see the discussion in our forums http://www.olivetree.com/help/forum/viewtopic.php?t=518

Olive Tree has been hard at work on a new version of our BibleReader, now available as a beta release for BlackBerry with storage card. This version, 4.0, uses a new architecture that will provide the same features across all our supported platforms. That means that instead of having lots of features available on the Palm and fewer on the BlackBerry, the different platforms will be more consistent. That’s good news for BlackBerry users. As developers, we will be able to spend more time developing cool features instead of dealing with boring platform-specific differences.

Our alpha testers have been enthusiastic about the features in this new version. The verse chooser (pictured below) makes it quick and easy to get to a new verse–much faster than the old scrolling list of books. Our new library display lets you view the contents of your library at a glance. The font and color options let you customize the look of the text for easier reading. The history feature allows you to backtrack through the verses you have been reading. Storing Bibles on the storage card frees up memory on the device.

In order to use this new beta release, you must have a BlackBerry with storage card. Go to our BlackBerry beta page to download the reader directly to your device.

Coming soon will be table of contents for eBooks, publisher’s notes, faster searching, and lots, lots more.

At Olive Tree we are excited about this new release, and we think you will be, too.

~Kathy S.

Kathy Stevens works for Olive Tree Bible Software as a software engineer. She lives in Beaverton, Oregon with her husband and two children.