#OLIVE TREE BIBLE FOR WINDOWS FOR FREE#
#OLIVE TREE BIBLE FOR WINDOWS SOFTWARE#

To date the company has seen more than 400,000 downloads of its products from Apple’s iTunes, most of them free books, said Haninger.

#OLIVE TREE BIBLE FOR WINDOWS FOR FREE#

The company site,, features more than 50 Bibles or assorted theological books for free download.

#OLIVE TREE BIBLE FOR WINDOWS SOFTWARE#

Olive Tree Bible Software also provides free works. It includes maps, dictionaries, illustrations and study notes as well.

The $29.95 application, at iTunes, includes 2,700 pages of Bible text and commentaries. “We license everything we use directly from publishers.” One of its best selling products is the English Standard Version Study Bible. “We don’t write any of the books on our own,” Haninger said. The company’s engineers format and digitally enhance Bible texts and e-books into five mobile software versions: for iPhone, Symbian (for Nokia devices), Windows Mobile, Blackberry and Palm. “We’d like to find three more people for jobs in this office,” Haninger said. In July, now that the company has grown to 10 Spokane workers, he moved into an office near Whitworth University. “Olive Tree is the dominant animal in the mobile device platform for Bible texts,” said Reeves.įor the past eight years the company has operated out of the home of Drew Haninger, founder and president of Olive Tree Bible Software. company has worked as hard as Olive Tree to produce Bible texts for the growing population of smartphone or iPhone users, said Keith Reeves, professor of religion at Azusa Pacific University. More and more publishers are producing religious titles for iPhones, smartphones and small e-book readers such as Amazon’s Kindle. The demand for electronic versions of biblical texts has changed as dramatically as the general field of e-books has.

Olive Tree Bible Software, which started in Portland in 2000 and moved to Spokane in 2005, is considered the leader in delivering Bible texts for mobile and handheld devices. That arena is the hotly contested realm of digital Bible literature. Having just moved into its first Spokane office, startup Olive Tree Bible Software is betting the house on keeping its leadership role in a tough and competitive online publishing arena.

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