[BNM] e-commerce question

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Mike,
I think Lulu.com is exactly what you're looking for?

Hope this helps.

cheers,
Andy

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2008/11/12 Mike Halsey <mike.halsey at live.co.uk>

> My friend said that too.   For the sort of PDF I'll be selling, I'm not
> especially worried about this to be honest.  As it's really the only way to
> distribute the document it doesn't look like I have much choice.  :o}   At
> least as it's a PDF I can put 'some' protections on it.
>
> Mike
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Steve Esson" <stevee at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 3:11 PM
> To: "Brighton New Media" <bnmlist at brightonnewmedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [BNM] e-commerce question
>
> > 2008/11/12 Mike Halsey <mike.halsey at live.co.uk>:
> >> A friend pointed out an interesting question...  "I guess the most
> simple
> >> solution would be to have a link with a unique id in the querystring -
> >> which
> >> is only valid for a certain amount of time."
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >
> > That might prevent hot linking the file directly but what's to stop
> > your customers emailing the pdf's to others? It's  been discussed here
> > before [1]. It's very hard to protect documents like pdf's from
> > non-authorised distribution.  The bottom line of the discussion was
> > "if you can read it, you can copy it".
> >
> > Steve
> > [1]
> >
> http://groups.google.co.uk/group/brightonnewmedia/browse_thread/thread/ad56be428d6041c4/814070997ee087cf
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