Patent ID: 8631089

Claim:
A system for previewing audio data associated with an audio book, the system comprising: a data store that stores audio data associated with a plurality of audio books; and a computing device in communication with the data store and that is operative to: following capture, by a mobile computing device of a user, of an image of a graphical code included on packaging associated with the audio book, receive, from the mobile computing device, a request for audio data associated with the audio book, wherein the request comprises a uniform resource identifier generated using the graphical code from the image captured by the mobile computing device; in response to receiving the request, retrieve the audio data associated with the audio book from the data store, wherein said audio data comprises a first portion of audio content of the audio book; send the audio data to the mobile computing device for playback by the mobile computing device; based at least in part on purchase information associated with one or more sellers, determine, a predetermined amount of time after receiving the request, whether the user associated with the mobile computing device purchased the audio book from one of the one or more sellers subsequent to the request for data associated with the audio book; and when the determination is that the user did not purchase the audio book from one of the one or more sellers, send to the mobile computing device a second portion of audio content of the audio book.