Geek Answers Handbook

Selling e-books in android using the paypal option?

My application should mainly sell e-books and should be distributed through the Android Market. For payment options, I would like to use PayPal. So, straight to the point, can I use paypal as a payment option for digital goods (in my case Ebooks)? For a while I was looking for him. But I didn’t need to refer.

I also read the Android Market terminals and did not quite understand if they allow such an opportunity for billing in the application. Everything I see from my docs relates to Google Checkout. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Well, just for information, I refer to http://www.google.com/mobile/android/market-tos.html .

To keep up, http://www.android.com/us/developer-content-policy.html#showlanguages this link may be more specific to my situation.

+4
source share
2 answers

In general, you need to be careful - TOS Android Market usually requires that you use the Google payment processing settings to pay users (see "Paid and free applications").

However, they name two exceptions, one of which, apparently, applies in your case - “Where is the payment for digital content or goods that can be used outside the application itself (for example, buying songs that can be played on other music players). " If your application sells e-books in the form of standard files (for example, epub or pdf), you should be clear.

+3
source

I believe that you can sell digital content using PayPal through your application, but I do not think that you can use the Google In-App purchasing system - which must go through Market Place and is associated with a Google Checkout account. Thus, you will need a separate delivery and authentication system.

+1
source

More articles:


All Articles