a transaction site?
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Jon Franklin couldn't get through to the list, so he asked me to post it:
I seem to recall that sometime recently, on this list, someone mentioned an
online site that did transactions, generally, for other sites. A widget
site would attract the customer and sell the widget, then link the buyer to
the transaction site to do the credit card thing; then the transaction site
would notify the seller to send the product to the customer. I remember
being intrigued by the idea that the seller of information might not
necessarily have to do the financial transaction -- that the act of selling
and the act of exchanging plastic could be separated.
The *bylines* site <http://www.bylines.org> is set up to do its own credit
card transactions, but it was big trouble to do (actually, IRE/NICAR did
it; I never could have). So when I saw the announcement about the
transaction site it made real sense. My immediate thought was that it
ought to open up possibilities for individual authors, for example, to sell
their own stuff. Or for small-scale retailers generally to get on the web
without going the secure server route.
I mentioned this outfit, whatever it was, in the course of a backchannel
discussion with someone who has a great online book idea that doesn't fit
the *bylines* model but ought to be quite marketable. But I can't find the
post I remember. Does anyone else remember it? Or know of anything like it?
-- Jon Franklin
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On Fri, Dec 19, 1997 7:36 PM, Suzanne Lainson wrote:
>I seem to recall that sometime recently, on this list, someone mentioned
an
>online site that did transactions, generally, for other sites.
One transaction website I've spent tons of money at is Digital River, based
here in Minneapolis. http://www.digitalriver.com/
These were software purchases, where both the financial and distribution
tasks were handled by Digital River.
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