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  • From: "Thomas A. Beckett" <thomas AT tbeckett.com>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: selling documents
  • Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 11:20:34 -0400


Snow -

Take a look at Mightywords. http://www.mightywords.com/ They publish
small works for small payments and don't meddle with copyright.

TaB

S S Tempest wrote:
>
> Hello everyone. I'm looking for advice about a seemingly simple project
> that I can't quite solve to my satisfaction.
>
> I'm working with some teachers who have a side business selling the
> curricula they have developed for high school literature classes. They used
> to print and mail them, but they would like to use the internet to save
> them a lot of the grunt work. They're certainly willing to pay for it, but
> this is still a small business on a tight budget.
>
> The hard part is figuring out how to let customers pay by the document. I
> don't think the budget allows for us to create a system from scratch, or to
> purchase Adobe's $5000 software. We've thought about going on the honor
> system and letting people pay by credit card or PayPal, but it doesn't seem
> like it should be that hard to find some way to have the documents secured
> until purchase.
>
> For a while, I was excited about thoughtstore.com, which does, technically,
> exactly what we were looking for. However, they want to reserve the
> copyright (!) to all material posted on their site, which is ridiculous. My
> clients would much rather just pay the hosting service.
>
> Does anyone know of such a service? Or, if anyone would like to start one,
> I'll be your first customer.
>
> Snow T.
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  • Re: selling documents, Thomas A. Beckett, 08/23/2000

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