Setting up your eBook Business - part 3 - Password Protecting Public Folders On A Server

This old (rarely used) technique to distributing e-books entails creating a shared password protected folder on your server and copying your e-book to this folder (so it is available to the web). Once a customer purchases your book you simply send them the password and URL for the download.

One advantage of this is that there is no cost involved, except for your time, but you will still require shopping cart software to manage the purchase.

But a major setback to this technique is the weak security of freely distributing the password and URL with people who could then freely redistribute the details to others that could download the e-book.