It looks like eBook software is rather limited in respect of this,
either requiring the recipient or, almost as bad, us, to enter
something manually for each copy.
The pdf route at least seems to offer sdk-type solutions that could
be linked in to VFP easily (hah!).
Mark,
We investigated this a long time ago and the only solution at the time
was to use an Adobe engine (ran on the server) that would generate a
custom PDF 'on the fly' each time an ebook was ordered. We declined because
(1) the engine was Microsoftishly expensive, something like $25,000 for
the software AND an additional fee per copy, and
(2) the resources the engine needed (in terms of server horsepower) were
way over the top - even at our paltry volume, I would have needed to set
up a server farm to handle the requests - the engine could only do one
PDF every few minutes or two, so when we released a new book and got a
bunch of orders all in a morning, we'd have a ridiculous queue.
I don't know what has transpired since; I'd love to do something like
this now because we're getting a LOT of pirate hits from Undesirable
Places and don't have a real good way to stop them.
Whil
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