Ask HN: How to sell eBooks etc without the hassle?

9 pointsby rmc16 yıl önce6 comments

I have some ideas for some side businesses selling ebooks, clip art collections, that sort of things. I'm a web developer, but I don't want to write all the payments handling, sending files stuff myself. Can the HN community recommend any site that current does that? I'd like to be able to send them a file of my finished product and have some way to redirect the users to that site to buy stuff.

7 comments

rada16 yıl önce

I think you would find Scribd really useful:

http://support.scribd.com/entries/96701-selling-documents-on...

Also, Amazon makes it easy for publishers to sell e-books through their Kindle store:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_n...

(Once you publish on Kindle, you automatically get onto Stanza, Mobipocket and some other distribution channels too).

For clip art, I highly recommend IStock:

http://www.istockphoto.com/index.php

byoung216 yıl önce

Clickbank does exactly that, but their fees are pretty high.

A few years ago, I wrote a custom script for ebooks that takes a PDF and watermarks every page with the buyer's Paypal email address after purchase, and offers email and download delivery options.

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patio1116 yıl önce

e-junkie.com is pretty much made for this use case. Back when my #1 problem was taking Paypal and immediately delivering license keys, they made my day.

dottertrotter16 yıl önce

Lulu.com and CreateSpace.com are both good for this.

noodle16 yıl önce

could just set up a simple front end w/ shopfiy or something similar. i think they have support for digital goods.

anoved16 yıl önce

Shopify + Fetch (http://fetchapp.com/) seems like a decent combination for selling digital goods. Fetch provides file hosting and download services and integrates with Shopify as well as other services. I believe it helps manage updates to your files too, eg. with an option to send out re-download notices to existing customers when you update a file.