@sgsrecording

I have not set up a site selling digital products so I’m curious to hear from someone who has. But without the benefit of that experience I would suggest the following:

Easy – send the link to them in an email.
Not so Easy – set up a membership site where they would go to their account “downloads” area to access the link.

Hi @sgsrecording,

This is a common problem and an easy one to solve whether you are a programmer or not. If you are a programmer, it’s easy to hide the true URL of the content and then just pipe it through your download form. I’ve got it setup this way so I can hand out review copies of my book. 

If you aren’t a programmer or don’t want to go through the hassle, I suggest a shopping cart system that handles it for you. I use foxycart.com (partly because I know the guys behind it) and it does a great job. You upload your book to their server and when someone purchases it, they give them a link that is not the true link to the book but will allow them to down load it. 

It took me a couple of hours to get it setup and to get one of their WordPress plugins installed and configured. The result is a seamless operation and it solves not only that problem but several others.

Most shopping cart services will handle digital products for you so don’t feel you have to use foxycart.com; it’s just what worked for me.

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@sgsrecording,No, Foxycart is not free, I believe it’s $20!mo.No, the URL that the user is given is not the real URL, when a user goes to that URL, the user checks to make sure it’s not been used yet before it allows them to download the content. The user can’t discover the real location of the content. Programmatically, it’s trivial to build, I use Foxycart because I don’t want to matain it. =C=

You could use sites like Cartville and e-junkie as well@sgsrecording |

you can also sell it on Amazon Kindle!!!!