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As far as sampling audio books, I don't know. I haven't tried it. It wouldn't surprise me if it was a flash-based feature and therefore incompatible, but that's just guesswork on my part. I do seem to remember Audible at one point mentioning a portable device-focussed website in the works. Perhaps that will address the issue.
As for buying Audible books, that can be done, but with some caveats. You can use the website as normal for buying the books but then you cannot download them. But there is an Audible app for the iPhone/iPod Touch that I am assuming would also work for the iPad (it may even be a universal app. I'm not sure, but for audio content the screen size is not as big of an issue.). The Audible app allows you to do two things: It allows you to access and play any Audible content in the iTunes library on your iOS device, and it allows you to download and play any content in your Audible library on-line (it may require wifi to download files). It will not add your new books to the iTunes library on your iOS device. To do that, you need to go the old route of downloading the files to your computer, adding them to iTunes, and syncing. But it does give you a way get a new audio book on to your iPad and listen to it without having to resync your device.
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