How to sell PDF versions of weblog articles?
Posted: July 30th, 2011, 6:46 am
Hi,
I was writing computer articles (about Linux, to be precise) for a paper magazine until a few months ago, when it folded and closed shop. But as I still have the writing bug, and I enjoyed writing those articles, I decided to create a weblog and publish there the articles that I'd like to write for the magazine. If you're curious, there's nothing yet there and uses a standard Blogger template, but you can see it here: http://www.linuxtecnico.es. It's in spanish, because the one thing that I learned writing for that magazine is that there is a lack of quality Linux articles in spanish. I'm targetting that niche.
I also wanted to put PDF versions of the articles, because they're going to be a bit big and PDF is better suited for that than a weblog. And I was wondering if there is some way of selling them. You could read the article on the weblog or pay some ridiculous price (0.5€, for example) and download a well-layout PDF with some additional content. Ideally, there would be some service that took a tiny fraction of the price (or none ) where I would host the PDF files, and it would offer some "Buy" button that I could place in my weblog. The user would click there, be offered to pay with PayPal, and I would be a bit richer.
Is there anything like this? Do you have experience doing this kind of self-publishing?
Thanks in advance.
I was writing computer articles (about Linux, to be precise) for a paper magazine until a few months ago, when it folded and closed shop. But as I still have the writing bug, and I enjoyed writing those articles, I decided to create a weblog and publish there the articles that I'd like to write for the magazine. If you're curious, there's nothing yet there and uses a standard Blogger template, but you can see it here: http://www.linuxtecnico.es. It's in spanish, because the one thing that I learned writing for that magazine is that there is a lack of quality Linux articles in spanish. I'm targetting that niche.
I also wanted to put PDF versions of the articles, because they're going to be a bit big and PDF is better suited for that than a weblog. And I was wondering if there is some way of selling them. You could read the article on the weblog or pay some ridiculous price (0.5€, for example) and download a well-layout PDF with some additional content. Ideally, there would be some service that took a tiny fraction of the price (or none ) where I would host the PDF files, and it would offer some "Buy" button that I could place in my weblog. The user would click there, be offered to pay with PayPal, and I would be a bit richer.
Is there anything like this? Do you have experience doing this kind of self-publishing?
Thanks in advance.