If the books are purchased from a location called the stanza store on fictionwise and there is an application called stanza for iphone that can read these books, what sense does it make that the application called Stanza desktop cannot read the same book? One would thing that a computer based program could have more features than it's sibling for a phone, not less. It is silly that you have to use two separate programs (stanza for iphone and ereader) to read the same ebook. If the iphone program could be made to read the format why can't the pc/mac version read the same format? Stanza is the best ebook reader for the iphone that I've found, but it's extremely frustrating that it's missing the one basic aspect that all the inferior iphone apps have in allowing reading the same book in multiple locations (computer, iphone, ebook reader, etc...).

If you want to directly download a book that you purchased in Stanza iPhone, it's simple and doesn't require a download to your pc. In Stanza iPhone, go to Online Catalog->Fictionwise Book Store->My Bookshelf. Enter the email address and password you used to purchase the book. Tap on the book you want to download and tap Download. You will have to enter your name and credit card number to unlock the book the first time you do this, then you are ready to read.

You can't read Fictionwise books with Stanza Desktop because those files have DRM protection. That's why we say to use the free eReader application for reading Fictionwise books on your computer. It's available here:

http://www.ereader.com/ereader/software/browse.htm

You can also use Stanza Desktop to wireless transfer books from your computer to Stanza iPhone. This is especially useful for Word docs and text-heavy PDFs, which are not very readable on the iPhone. Here are instructions for doing that:

http://www.lexcycle.com/faq/how_to_get_books_onto_stanza_iphone

Finally, you can use Stanza Desktop to read things on your computer that you would normally read in Word, your browser, a pdf viewer, or a text editor. If you have a Mac, you'll see a lot of different reading layout options in Stanza Desktop.