Selling Ebooks in android using paypal option?

My app is basically supposed to sell ebooks and need to distribute via Android Market. For payment options, I would like to use PayPal. So, strai开发者_Go百科ght to the point, am I allowed to use paypal as payment option for digital goods(in my case Ebooks)? I had googled for it a while. But nothing worth referencing came up to me.

I also read through Android Market terms and didn't quite get it whether they allow such option for in-app billing. All I see from their docs is referring 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 .

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

In general, you need to be careful - the TOS of the Android Market generally require you to use Google's payment processing options to charge users (see "Paid and Free Applications").

That said, they name two exceptions, one of which seems to apply in your case - "Where payment is for digital content or goods that may be consumed outside of the application itself (e.g. buying songs that can be played on other music players)". If your app sells ebooks in the form of standard files (like epub or pdf), you should be in the clear.

I believe you can sell digital content using paypal via your app - however I don't think you can use Google's In-App Purchasing system - that has to go through the Market Place, and is linked to a Google Checkout account. So you'd need a separate delivery and authentication system.