[Web4lib] Library Purchase/Subscription For Kindle Content?

[McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]]

Colleagues/

 

As Some May Know, Amazon Recently Made Available An iPhone App For
Access To Kindle Content:

 

"Kindle For iPhone App Released"

 

[ http://tinyurl.com/dzcck4 ]

 

In speaking with John Cox, Acting Librarian, National University of
Ireland, Galway, at dinner the evening before my presentation on June 5
2009 at the NLI-Galway Library

 

[ http://tinyurl.com/luhun9 ]

 

about their library's sizable e-Book collection (400,000+), it occurred
to me that a library purchase / [subscription ?] of (select) Kindle
Content  (240,000 titles +)could revolutionize the entire textbook and
e-text environment at colleges and universities (as well as within other
institutions/organizations) with the use of the iPhone App for Kindle
Content [Kindle Access w/o The Kindle] as well as access via The Kindle
Device Itself [Kindle Access w/ The Kindle]

 

I Would Most Appreciate Your Reactions / Thoughts About The
Opportunities / Possibilities / Ramifications Of This Scenario By
Commenting On The Matter At The Blog Entry At

 

[ http://tinyurl.com/nhccld ]

 

BTW: To My Knowledge, Institutional Purchase / Subscription Options Are
Not Currently Available For Kindle Content [?]

 

Thanks A Million !

 

/Gerry 

 

Gerry McKiernan

Associate Professor

Science and Technology Librarian

Iowa State University Library

Ames IA 50011

 

gerrymck at iastate.edu  

 

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