Re: FN-FORUM: selling an eBook on Wordpress

date posted 27th February 2008 10:57

Yeah, sorry, didn't read correctly.
Still suffering from back head (see other post).

Lee Rickler
Director Point and Stare - pointandstare.com
Web Design and Development for over 11 years

Brian Lycett wrote:
> Well, no. That will just let them send you money. You can do this if you
> want to then manually send each customer a copy of the ebook once it's
> been purchased.
> To automate it so that a customer can instantly download it once they've
> paid, you need to use the PayPal API to communicate with your site's
> back-end.
>
>> All you need to do is use a paypal 'buy now' button.
>> Just create the button in paypal and copy/ paste the code.
>>
>>
>> Lee Rickler
>> Director Point and Stare - pointandstare.com
>> Web Design and Development for over 11 years
>>
>> Simon Wray wrote:
>>> Hi Everyone
>>>
>>> First post.
>>>
>>> I have a client who wants to sell an eBook via PayPal on his Wordpress
>>> blog. I'm very new to this and would appreciate some general pointers
>>> from anyone.
>>> I can make the necessary changes to Wordpress PHP/HTML files - I've
>>> got that far! I've checked out the PayPal Merchant account and I can
>>> see that it is straightforward enough to get a PayPal "Buy" button on
>>> the blog but then things start to get a bit hazy.
>>>
>>> The general questions are:
>>> 1) Is there a striaghtforward/accepted way of doing this?
>>> 2) Is there a way of protecting the eBook from copying (i.e. from
>>> person to person once downloaded, or as a minimum hiding the download
>>> link or something basic like that)?
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> Simon
>>>
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