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Next stop for Olive Tree…Dallas! Last week I had a great time manning Olive Tree’s booth at the Gospel Coalition in Chicago and if you get a chance… download some of the great sessions! Next week, the Christian Leadership Alliance Annual Conference kicks off on Tuesday (April 26) with main speaker, Dr. Chuck Swindoll. If you’re attending, be sure and stop by our booth and say, “Hi!” I’d love to answer questions or show you the latest features of BibleReader.

Below is a slightly fuzzy picture of our booth last week in Chicago.

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Summer can be a challenging time for a business. Why? Because summer is the time for vacations. And if you’re not taking a vacation, it can still be distracting because it’s typically the time for beautiful weather where you find yourself looking out the window thinking about how nice it would be to take a vacation. So what can be done to give employees a break, reward them for their efforts, and yet create a bond where being around their co-workers day after day becomes even more enjoyable? Here’s what Olive Tree did this summer:

On a sunny, hot Saturday in July, Olive Tree employees and family began our summer event at a nearby pizza establishment: Shakey’s. We had our own reserved seating area. The food and service were great. Added to the fun were door prizes for all the kids and most of the staff.

From there we made a short jaunt down the road to Wonderland Family Fun Center for what else but more fun! It began with an 18-hole round of miniature golf. Teams were assigned in such a way to give staff and their guests an opportunity to meet some new people, or at least people they did not always work with directly. Prizes were given out to the team with the best average score, and to the individual on each of the other teams with the best score. After that, people were free to take advantage of the many other available activities. Go-karts and bumper boats seemed to be the favorites.

The turn-out was great; a fun time had by all, and it gave everyone additional topics of conversation back at work, making for an even more pleasurable work environment. Now, on to figuring out what to do for a bonding winter event!

–Written by Judy M.

Yesterday, Zondervan, a world leader in Christian communications and the leading Christian publishing brand, announced a partnership with us here at Olive Tree in the electronic publishing of 29 volumes, and the hopes of more to come. We here at Olive Tree are excited about the opportunity to offer such quality resources from one of the leading Christian publishers.

Electronic releases include the bestselling The Purpose Driven Life and substantial Bible reference works like Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary (OT & NT) and Dictionary of Biblical Prophecy and End Times by J. Daniel Hays, J. Scott Duvall and C. Marvin Pate. Zondervan’s extensive catalog of biblical reference works in electronic form will capture the Olive Tree advantage of Bible-centric eBook technology that offers a reading and study experience designed especially for the Bible. For a full list of Zondervan releases, and details on an upcoming Zondervan resource sale, see the end of this post.

BibleReader for iPad has been available for weeks now, and we’ve received very positive comments from Olive Tree users who’ve tried it on their iPads. 400+ resources are available now for iPad, including commentaries, full-color maps, study Bibles with notes and more, along with the favorite Bible translations you’ve come to expect from Olive Tree.

Now there’s just the matter of helping people find it on iTunes.

Look closely. Can you spot Olive Tree BibleReader in the search results when searching for “Bible” on the iPad iTunes store?

We are hoping BibleReader will be available on iTunes for the launch of the iPad tomorrow. (If it’s not on the iPad store tomorrow, expect to see it very soon!) We hope you enjoy using this newly-designed application as much as we enjoyed creating it. You’ll find a new design and interface that takes advantage of the unique features of the iPad, like its large, beautiful display. We’ve never seen the Bible look better on a mobile device!

How do I get BibleReader on iPad?

Find us on iTunes! iTunes 9 includes the ability to view and browse apps for iPad. Look for BibleReader – Bible Study for iPad, a free app.

How do I get my books on iPad?

BibleReader on iPad allows you to access the contents of your Olive Tree Personal Library, so books you’ve already purchased that are in your Olive Tree Personal Library can be downloaded for reading on your iPad. Open “My Account” in BibleReader and enter your username and password from OliveTree.com to access the contents of your Personal Library.

If your Bibles or books came bundled with a BibleReader app (like the NIV Bible in NIV Bible for BibleReader), you need to sync them to your Olive Tree account at OliveTree.com. Watch this video from Olive Tree University to learn how to easily sync books to your Olive Tree account. Once all your books are synced to your Olive Tree account, you’ll be able to download them into your iPad BibleReader app.

I did the sync, but all my titles still aren’t visible.

We are working hard to make every Olive Tree title available on iPad, but there are a small number of titles in the Olive Tree Library still not available because of publisher permission issues. If there are some titles in your Personal Library at OliveTree.com that you do not see listed on your iPad, it may be because we have not been able to secure permission to distribute those titles on iPad. We’re still working to expand our permissions with publishers, and we hope we can resolve these exceptions as soon as possible.