Buying and Downloading from the iTunes Store

As you select songs, videos, movies, and more that you think you want to buy and download from iTunes, you have a choice regarding how and when to make your purchase:

• Apple offers 1-Click technology in the iTunes Store so that — literally — with one click, your digital content immediately starts downloading to your computer, and the purchase is done, or

• You can also add items to the shopping cart to put off purchasing and downloading until you’re ready. With the shopping cart, the iTunes Store remembers your selections, allowing you to browse the iTunes Store at different times and add to your total without making any purchases final. You can also remove items from the cart at any time. When you’re ready to buy, you can purchase and download the items in your cart in one fell swoop.

Each time you buy content, you get an e-mail from the iTunes Store with the purchase information. It’s a "receipt" of sorts, and it helps to know right away what you bought.

Your decision to download each item immediately or add to a shopping cart and download later can be based on a couple of things. Maybe you just don't know for sure if you like a song well enough to buy it, and you want to think about it for a day. Or, if you have a slow connection to the Internet, such as a phone line, you probably want to use the shopping cart to avoid tying up the phone with each download.