Ebook Store

You wrote it. You should get paid for it.

You spent months on your ebook. Then one buyer emails the file to ten friends, someone drops it in a group chat, and it spreads for free while you never see another sale. Ebook Store fixes both halves of that problem on your own WordPress site: it gets you paid, and — with Pro — it stamps every copy you sell, PDF or ePub, with the buyer it was sold to, so a leaked file points straight back to the person who shared it.

No separate storefront. No marketplace skimming a cut of every sale. You keep the payment, the customer, and the file.

Sell your first ebook this afternoon

Upload a book, set a price, drop a shortcode on any page — that page is now a working order form, with the cover, description, price and a buy button. Add an optional 3D book preview and a free sample chapter if you like. When someone buys, they get a checkout, a thank-you page with their download links, and an optional delivery email with the file attached or linked. Would you rather they didn’t download at all? Let them read it in the browser instead.

PayPal is built in — PayPal balance, card, eCheck and bank transfer — so you can take money the moment you’re set up. A store-readiness panel walks you through exactly what’s left before your first sale and links straight to the screen that fixes each item. Several order-form designs let the form match your site.

That’s the free version, and it is a complete store: sell ebooks and other digital downloads, take payment, and deliver — for real, not a crippled demo.

The free version sells and delivers. Pro protects and scales.

When casual sharing starts eating your sales, or you outgrow PayPal-only checkout, Ebook Store Pro adds the protection and reach a growing store needs. Everything below is what you gain — Pro adds capabilities, it never switches off anything the free version already does.

New in 6.20 — watermark every ePub to its buyer (social DRM)

An ePub is a website in a box: unlike a PDF, it cannot be password-locked without breaking the e-readers your customers use. So Ebook Store doesn’t lock it — it stamps it. Every ePub you sell is watermarked with the buyer’s identity right in the pages, recorded again in the file’s hidden metadata, and can carry a scannable QR verification code. You decide where the watermark and QR go: the opening page, the start of every chapter, or a dedicated licence page at the end; top or bottom; a subtle line or a boxed notice.

This is ePub DRM the customer-friendly way — social DRM, not a lock. The delivered file stays a fully valid ePub that opens in Apple Books, Kindle, Kobo, calibre and the rest, with no apps and no logins. It works in any language, and books that already carry DRM or font obfuscation pass through untouched. And a paid download is never blocked, even if watermarking can’t run. The reader you sold to is never punished; the copy is simply traceable.

Lock down your PDFs: PDF DRM that prints in any language

For PDFs, Pro adds full PDF DRM. Encrypt the file, set an open password (a fixed one, a fresh random one per order, the buyer’s own email, or leave it open but restricted), and disable printing, copying, editing and annotations. Every page can be stamped with a per-buyer watermark carrying their name, email and order, alongside a QR verification code. The watermarking engine, rebuilt on TCPDF, renders buyer watermarks and QR codes in any language — Cyrillic, Hebrew and Arabic included, with correct right-to-left ordering — and no longer needs the PHP GD extension, so it runs on far more hosts. The QR is drawn on your own server, with no third-party QR service involved.

Trace any leaked copy back to its buyer

Every copy you deliver, PDF or ePub, is uniquely tied to the order it came from. A public verification page turns that into action: scan a copy’s QR code and it shows the order the copy was licensed to, so a file that turns up on a sharing site points straight back to who shared it. This is ebook watermarking as deterrence, not lockdown — social DRM discourages casual sharing without the customer-hostile restrictions of hard DRM. It won’t stop a determined pirate, and we don’t pretend it does; it strongly deters the casual forwarding that costs indie sellers the most. Want to see precisely what a buyer receives before you sell it? A Test button on each book previews the real protected PDF or watermarked ePub — and asks which one when a book has both.

More formats, more gateways, more reach (Pro)

• Sell more file types: ePub, Mobi, TXT and ZIP, plus MP3 and MP4 so you can bundle audio and video with a book.
• Add card checkout with Stripe (cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Link, Klarna, SEPA and more) and Adyen.
• Already run a shop? WooCommerce integration links an ebook to a product and works with the cart, variable products and High-Performance Order Storage.
• Grow faster with a bulk book importer, automatic customer accounts for re-downloads, Kindle delivery, and per-ebook email and thank-you overrides.
• Connect the tools you already use: Mailchimp, Brevo, WP Affiliate Manager, Google Analytics 4, Elementor and WPBakery / Visual Composer.

Free vs Pro at a glance

Free: sell and deliver PDF ebooks, PayPal checkout, a thank-you page with download links, optional email delivery and in-browser reading, a 3D preview, free samples, and the store-readiness setup panel.

Pro adds: PDF DRM and PDF watermarking, ePub watermarking (ePub DRM / social DRM), leaked-copy traceability with a QR verification page, the ePub / Mobi / TXT / ZIP / MP3 / MP4 formats, the Stripe and Adyen gateways, WooCommerce integration, a bulk importer, automatic customer accounts, Kindle delivery and the marketing integrations. Nothing in the free version is time-limited or switched off.

Who it’s for

Authors, publishers, course creators and coaches who want to sell ebooks and digital file downloads directly — ebooks, PDFs, ePub, audio, video and ZIP bundles — from a site they own, and keep casual sharing from quietly draining their revenue.

Ebook Store ships in English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Hindi and Arabic (with right-to-left support), so both your store and your buyer watermarks read correctly for a global audience.

Ready to protect what you sell?

Get Ebook Store Pro: https://www.shopfiles.com/index.php/products/wordpress-ebook-store

Questions before you buy? Email support@shopfiles.com. Security issues can be reported through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program.

Shortcodes

[ebook_store]

The full order form for one book: cover, description, price, preview and buy button. This is the shortcode shown next to each book in Ebook Store > Ebooks.

• ebook_id — the ID of the ebook to display. Required. Example: [ebook_store ebook_id="123"]
• template — which order-form design to use for this one form, overriding the site-wide choice in Settings. Accepts 2026, modern, hello-elementor-2026, legacy, or the key of a template you saved yourself in Settings > Pages & emails. An unknown value falls back to 2026. Example: [ebook_store ebook_id="123" template="modern"]

[ebook_store_buy]

The same thing with the buy button only — no cover, description or details panel. Useful when your page already describes the book and you just want a button.

• ebook_id — the ID of the ebook to sell. Required.
• template — same values as above.

Example: [ebook_store_buy ebook_id="123"]

[ebook_thank_you]

Placed on the thank-you page, this renders the buyer’s download links, passwords and order details after a payment. The Create it now button in Settings puts this on the page for you; you only need it by hand if you build the thank-you page yourself.

• ebook_id — optional, and normally left out. The order is identified from the link the buyer arrives on, not from this attribute.
• template — same values as above.

Example: [ebook_thank_you]

[ebook_store_row]

A wrapper that lays several order forms out side by side in one row. It is an enclosing shortcode: put the individual book shortcodes between the opening and closing tags.

• col — how many columns the row should use. A whole number.

Example:

[ebook_store_row col="3"][ebook_store ebook_id="12"][ebook_store ebook_id="13"][ebook_store ebook_id="14"][/ebook_store_row]

[ebook_store_downloads]

Lists the orders belonging to the currently logged-in customer, each linking to its download page. Put it on a “My downloads” or account page. It takes no attributes and shows nothing to logged-out visitors.

Example: [ebook_store_downloads]