Olive Tree is excited to announce the upcoming release of the ESV Study Bible for BibleReader in December 2008. It will be available for iPhone, BlackBerry with Media Card, Palm, Windows Mobile Professional, and Windows Mobile Classic (Pocket PC) devices. Support for Android and Symbian platforms is planned for 2009.

The ESV Study Bible is a highly anticipated new release from Crossway Books, combining the best and most recent evangelical Christian scholarship with the acclaimed ESV Bible text, and including the following key features:

20,000 notes—focusing on understanding the Bible text and providing answers to frequently raised questions.

Over 50 articles—including articles on the Bible’s authority and reliability, biblical archaeology, theology, ethics, and personal application.

More than 200 charts—offering key insights and in-depth analysis in clear, concise outline form; located throughout the Bible.

Over 200 full-color maps—created with the latest digital technology, satellite images, and archaeological research.

80,000 cross-references—to encourage easy location of important words, passages, and biblical themes.

40 all-new illustrations—including full-color renderings and architectural diagrams of the Tabernacle, the Ark of the Covenant, Solomon’s temple, Herod’s temple, the city of Jerusalem in Jesus’ time and throughout the history of Israel, and many more.

All together the ESV Study Bible includes 2 million words of Bible text, insightful explanation, teaching, and reference material—equivalent to a 20-volume Bible resource library. On your mobile device, the ESV Study Bible includes all features, notes, images, and supplemental materials of the print version, plus the easy interface of BibleReader and and the convenience and portability of handheld use. Olive Tree's electronic version lets you read and study with the complete resources of the ESV Study Bible wherever you go!

Look for the ESV Study Bible for BibleReader in December 2008.

Olive Tree on the Road

There are several upcoming opportunities to meet Olive Tree programmers and designers face-to-face at conferences and trade shows.

• ETS/SBL: This week, Olive Tree developers are at two conferences on the East Coast (US)—Evangelical Theological Society in Providence, RI, and Society of Biblical Literature in Boston. There, they'll demonstrate our programs to scholars and students in biblical and religious fields.
  
  If you're there, stop by the Olive Tree booth for a demonstration of our original language (Greek and Hebrew) resources. We will be unveiling the first of our original language resources for iPhone, including the Greek New Testament, Greek Septuagint (LXX), and Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS).


• 2009 Christian Book Expo: Olive Tree will also attend the Christian Book Expo in Dallas, TX, March 2009. Sponsored by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association and completely open to the public, this expo is the first event of its kind. It will gather print publishers, electronic publishers like Olive Tree, authors, ministries, and booksellers—all for the purpose of reaching the largest audience possible with the life-changing message in books, Bibles, and other Christian resources. Will you be there?

Access Your Olive Tree Account with iPhone BibleReader Update

This week, several BibleReader updates were released on the App Store at iTunes. These updates offer an important new feature: the ability to access your Olive Tree account via your iPhone. Once you're there, you can download any of your previously purchased titles that have been converted for iPhone.

Three BibleReader products on iTunes currently offer Olive Tree account access:  (Product links open in iTunes.)

• NIV Bible for BibleReader
• NKJV Bible for BibleReader
• ESV Bible for BibleReader

If you've already purchased any of these products for iPhone, you can download the updated version for free. Updates for other Olive Tree Apps may be available soon. Check the version number: BibleReader versions 4.03.025 and higher allow Olive Tree account access.

When you view your Olive Tree account via your iPhone, you'll see which titles are compatible and can be downloaded to your device. But not all titles have been converted yet—please be patient! The Olive Tree Library contains over 550 titles, and we're working to get them all updated to the new BibleReader 4.0 format. See Support Tips below to learn more about what these upgrades to BibleReader mean for iPhone users.

. . . of course, if you follow Olive Tree on Twitter, you already know this. Add Olive Tree to your Twitter feed at www.Twitter.com/OliveTreeBible to follow our latest Bible software news, and to learn about updates like these as soon as they go live!

Beta Update for BibleReader for BlackBerry with Media Card

BibleReader for BlackBerry with Media Card has been updated again! Download the latest version here, or go to www.olivetree.com/m on your BlackBerry mobile web browser to install BibleReader over the air, directly to your device. The new version offers the following features:

• access to your Personal Library:
  • you can browse all titles available for BlackBerry with Media Card
  • download and install free titles
  • download previously purchased items that are available in BibleReader 4.0 format
• bug fix for non-English search
• numerous other bug fixes

Please note: You can't purchase titles via your BlackBerry mobile browser yet; go to OliveTree.com to make new purchases. Make sure your current device is set to "BlackBerry beta" to see only those titles formatted for BibleReader 4.0 (BlackBerry with Media Card and iPhone).

Questions or feedback on how the beta version performs? See the BlackBerry Beta forum for user comments and questions, and answers from our developers.

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SUPPORT TIPS

When BibleReader for iPhone was first released on the App Store, iPhone users could only get Olive Tree resources through iTunes and couldn't transfer any of their previously purchased titles. For long-time Olive Tree users, used to the flexibility of their Personal Library at OliveTree.com, this was a serious gap in the service they'd come to expect from Olive Tree.

This week's release of BibleReader version 4.03.025 is closing that gap.

With BibleReader versions 4.03.025 and higher, you can access your Olive Tree account and Personal Library from your iPhone. If titles you have previously purchased for other platforms have been converted for BibleReader 4.0, you can download them to your device, free of charge. This development unlocks many titles that have not previously been available through iTunes.

If you are an Olive Tree user on iPhone, there are several things to keep in mind:

• You can now select "Apple iPhone" as your device at OliveTree.com.
• You can view a complete list of titles available for iPhone here.
• You can still keep up with the latest news about BibleReader for iPhone at the iPhone information page. More developments are on their way!

We hope you enjoy this important feature upgrade in BibleReader for iPhone. It makes the features and capabilities of BibleReader for iPhone more like those of other platforms and offers you the flexibility you've come to expect from Olive Tree Bible Software.

          Sincerely,

           ~The Team at Olive Tree