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@iastate.edu There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come / Victor Hugo [ http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490 ] Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows [ http://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ ]