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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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