[Web4lib] Library Purchase/Subscription For Kindle Content?

[Brian Gray]

Can you transfer Amazon-purchased content? E-book collections available
through licensing are very different than purchases through Amazon's current
single-user purchase model.

Brian Gray
mindspiral at gmail.com
bcg8 at case.edu


On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:36 PM, McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] <
gerrymck at iastate.edu> wrote:

> Colleagues/
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> As Some May Know, Amazon Recently Made Available An iPhone App For
> Access To Kindle Content:
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> "Kindle For iPhone App Released"
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> [ http://tinyurl.com/dzcck4 ]
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> 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
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> [ http://tinyurl.com/luhun9 ]
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> 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]
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> 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
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> [ http://tinyurl.com/nhccld ]
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> BTW: To My Knowledge, Institutional Purchase / Subscription Options Are
> Not Currently Available For Kindle Content [?]
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> Thanks A Million !
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> /Gerry
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> Gerry McKiernan
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> Associate Professor
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> Science and Technology Librarian
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> Iowa State University Library
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> Ames IA 50011
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> gerrymck at iastate.edu
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