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  • From: "Joanna Wolfe (919)677-0977" <wolfe AT oup-usa.org>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: selling documents
  • Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 12:06:19 -0400 (EDT)


You might want to talk to the folks in the park at www.reciprocal.com - they
handle digital rights management and can do the e-commerce for you.

Regards,

Joanna

Joanna Wolfe
Technical Support Manager
Oxford University Press, USA
2001 Evans Road
Cary, NC 27513
v: (919) 677-0977 ext. 5242
f: (919) 677-2654
c: (919) 244-7696
e: wolfe AT oup-usa.org
w: www.oup-usa.org

>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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    • RE: selling documents, Joanna Wolfe (919)677-0977, 08/23/2000

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