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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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