DLGuard Review: A Simple Shopping Cart For Automating An Ebook Business
Posted by: Brad
Tags: ebooks, Ecommerce, product reviews, software
The DLGuard shopping cart application has helped a great many webmasters securely sell online for a number of years. This DLGuard review emphasizes the products use in building an ebook business.
Any ebook publisher faces the same dilemma – distribute ebooks from their own web domain or use an online service. The online service may experience more web traffic and therefore more sales but the ebook author misses out on collating customer mailing lists directly from the sale. Such mailing lists are invaluable for cross-selling future publications.
Publishing ebooks from your own domain requires checkout/shopping cart software, payment processing facilities (to verify payments with Paypal & co.) and a means to securely distribute the PDF files. DLGuard scripts provide the necessary web pages and back-end logic to do all this. Moreover the checkout pages may be refactored to resemble the rest of your website.
The real strength of the product is its automation of emails to customers containing secure download links. The product can configure a time-out setting for the link (after which it is inoperable) and the maximum amount of download attempts possible. This curtails the illegal sharing of the link on the web and the subsequent downloading, without payment, of your ebooks.
Once you start expanding your ebook business, perhaps acting as an ebook reseller, it is a trivial operation to add PDFs to the products inventory then add a buy-now button/link to your website. The only intervention required, during daily operations, is when refunds are required. In this instance, the DLGuard tracking data is invaluable for establishing the veracity of refund requests (repeat refund-requesters are often a sign of illegal behavior).
DLGuard is an ideal digital sales solution for those starting out publishing and has all the security & shopping cart functionality and automation required to free up your time to concentrate on marketing/writing books.