Bill Watt

One thing I love about my kindle is the ability to buy something online and it just downloads. I was listenting to This Week in Tech a few weeks ago and they mentioned a book that many of my friends had liked so I went on Amazon, bought the book for Kindle, and when i got on the train that night it was there waiting for me.

I want that same thing for the iPhone.

Yes, I now buy directly from the iPhone over wifi but there are several types of media I need to apprently get on my PC and then have it sync to the iPhone. It used to be that I could only get podcasts that way but they've opened that up. This is awesome if a podcast isn't available by the time I'm leaving for the train in the AM... at least I can have it for the ride home. Also works great if I'm on a trip and away from my PC for a few days.

Still, for some types of products, like audio books, there is apparently some DRM step or something that is stopping me from following the same process. On TWiT this morning they were talking about Earth Abides and I wanted to download it for the ride home but it is a Audible book and that's apparently not an option.

PS- I love reading negative reviews on Amazon. Generally I expect a chuckle but occassionally I stumble across a reasonably well written review like this one for Earth Abides. I'll let you know which way I net out after I read it.