Online ESV Bible Launches iPhone Site

From a Crossway press release:

Crossway Celebrates 5 Years of Online ESV Bible by Launching iPhone Site

Crossway Bibles celebrated the fifth anniversary of its dedicated ESV Bible web site on July 22 with the launch of a free web site optimized for the new Apple iPhone. The web site offers the complete, searchable text of the ESV Bible plus a variety of daily Bible readings.

A Crossway partner has also developed an ESV iPhone application. AcroDesign Technologies last week launched iBibleSpace, which offers the complete ESV Bible text plus a daily Bible verse, several podcasts, and other features. "At the present time, iBibleSpace is far and away the best Bible app available for the iPhone," wrote Rick Mansfield of the blog "This Lamp" in a review just after the launch of iBibleSpace.

Geoffrey Dennis, Crossway Vice President of Sales and Marketing, says, "Apple's iPhone revolutionizes the mobile phone market, and we want the ESV to be at the forefront of that revolution. Crossway and our partners are committed to providing the ESV Bible in many formats on many devices—we want people to be able to access the ESV wherever, whenever, and however they want to."

"Apple has made developing iPhone web applications easy by integrating a full-fledged web browser into the device: Apple instantly turned every web developer into an iPhone developer," says Crossway Webmaster Stephen Smith. "Visits by mobile devices to Crossway's family of web sites have grown significantly over the past few months, and we expect iPhones and other next-generation devices to further popularize mobile web browsing."