Buy and Rent Apple Media

In the United States, Apple sells music in the Music app, movies and TV shows in the TV app, and ebooks and audiobooks in the Books app, and they offer offer movie rentals in the TV app. In other countries, the content available varies.

For a long time, Apple sold all this content in the iTunes Store. There are remnants of this store in various Apple apps: you can display iTunes Store in the Music app on a Mac, and there is an iTunes Store app you can download on an iPhone or iPad to purchase music. But, other than for music, media sale and rental options have been rolled into the Books and TV apps.

The examples I give show what happens in the United States. If you live elsewhere, the experience is largely the same, ...

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