Format variations on eBooks

[SDAS]

Hi,

We are setting up eStore for selling eBooks and we have 3 formats per book: PDF, ePub and Kindle.

I was wondering if I can set up a product with format variations that will affect the downloading file. In other words, if a customer selects ePub format (from the format selection of the product) it let’s them download that format only.

I do not want to set up three separate products per book to achieve this.

Thank you!

[amin007]

You can do this using digital variation. Please read the following documentation which should help (check the “Variation Control for Digital products” section)

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/how-to-use-variation-control-in-wordpress-estore-plugin-345

[jeremyers1]

What if I wanted to “Bundle” Variations?

I asked the question here ( http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/how-to-use-variation-control-in-wordpress-estore-plugin-345 ), but maybe this forum is the better place to ask my question.

I created 9 products, with product ID 1-9.

I then created Product 10, and in the variations section, put this:

Package|A::1.99::1,2,3|B::2.99::4,5,6|C:.99::7,8,9

This doesn’t seem to work. Should it work?

EDIT: I did a bit more searching, and found this:

eStore – Amazon S3 problems and multiple file download

I think that might do what I was looking for… though I am not sure I understand the APRTP either, but will read some of the links that were provided.

[wzp]

APRTP allows you to offer permalinks to protected pages, on your site, as products. Let us suppose, you offer an eBook in 6 formats. What you are selling is access to a protected page, that has DOWNLOAD NOW buttons for each of the 6 formats. It shouldn’t matter if the buyer only selects 1 format or downloads all 6; they paid for access to the content, not any particular format. Whereas with variation, you only want them to have access to a specific variant of the product.

[jeremyers1]

Right. So I cannot bundle products in a variation?

[wzp]

You can, but you should do something like this…

Products: 1,2,3, 4,5,6

Bundled products 7 with 1,2,3 and 8 with 4,5,6

Product 9 with variation A product 7 or B with product 8

[jeremyers1]

Fantastic. I will try that…

Edit: I tried it, and it does not work. The “Digital Product Variation” field seems to require a URL for the file, rather than just a number of the Product ID.

When I enter this:

Format|PDF::25|Mobi::29|ePub::30

And test the download in the Admin functions, it gives me this error:

This product does not have any downloadable content

[wzp]

I’ll have to investigate the issue. But I do have a “workaround.”

Book A has 3 formats, as digital product IDs 1,2,3. Each product ID points to a file, with the corresponding format for Book A (PDF, Mobi, ePub).

Book B has 3 formats, as digital product IDs 5,6,7. Each product ID points to a file, with the corresponding format for Book B (PDF, Mobi, ePub).

Bundle AB-PDF is an APRTP protected page containing DOWNLOAD NOW buttons pointing to product IDs 1 and 5.

Bundle AB-Mobi is an APRTP protected page containing DOWNLOAD NOW buttons pointing to product IDs 2 and 6.

Bundle AB-ePub is an APRTP protected page containing DOWNLOAD NOW buttons pointing to product IDs 3 and 7.

You now have 3 URL that you can place into the digital variation field, as APRTP URI. Just remember to change the HTTP: of the URL into APRTP:

[jeremyers1]

Thanks for that suggestion.

I actually am trying to do exactly what you suggest.

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