Apple's iTunes Store lets you send music, videos, audiobooks and apps as gifts - although its iBooks doesn't allow this option, yet another way in which that e-book store invites its own irrelevance. Or you could simply take advantage of the gift-giving options most digital stores provide for faraway recipients. I like that idea, although the timing of this can get tricky or yield some awkward moments.
One reader suggested via Twitter that it would be more ingenious to kidnap the recipient's MP3 player, load the file in question on it, and then wrap up the hardware as a gift. Sadly, my own folding talents stop at paper airplanes. But friends with desk drawers overflowing with spare USB drives and memory cards (as in, most tech journalists) probably don't need any more.ĭo you print out the Web page listing the song or album you just bought - or maybe a screen shot of those files in a folder on your computer–and then wrap that in one way or another before transferring the actual files over at the recipient's convenience? That allows a certain amount of artistic expression, especially if you know origami. That's where consensus evaporates.ĭo you save the music or whatever file that you're giving on a USB flash drive or SD Card, then wrap that and stuff it in a stocking? That at least provides a secondary gift some flash drives look weird enough to serve as conversation pieces in their own right, while others can double as jewelry.
The blissful absence of "digital rights management" usage restrictions at Apple, Amazon and other music stores allow you to download a song and then present it to a recipient as you wish. The actual procurement mechanics aren't difficult.
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