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Watermarking and encryption for eBooks

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Igor Zuev
Igor Zuev

The new Digital Products capability is awesome! Thank you so much for your hard work on the North Commerce product.

May I suggest one additional feature that would make your product tremendously powerful and unique? A while ago, I came across a one-person-developed WordPress plugin that allows the sale of eBooks with watermarking and encryption, which is a proven method to prevent piracy.

Free: https://wordpress.org/plugins/ebook-store
Paid: https://www.shopfiles.com/index.php/products/wordpress-ebook-store

It would be great if you could test it to understand its capabilities and implement something similar into your North Commerce product.

I tried to build a store using this eBooks Store plugin, but it lacks interface customization and requires WooCommerce for additional capabilities. Additionally, since it’s a one-person-developed plugin, it lacks an adequate level of support, which makes it too risky to build a serious production store. However, if one person from Bulgaria could develop it, I believe it shouldn't be extremely difficult for your team to do the same or even better natively as part of your product. You could potentially reach out to this person and collaborate with him.

Implementing this watermarking and encryption feature would convince many eBook sellers to host their own eBook stores on WordPress and North Commerce instead of Amazon Kindle, as many authors are concerned about the piracy of their PDF books.