A big benefit of the internet is being able to shop and immediately place orders from the convenience of your home. There’s a further benefit in buying Digital Down-loadable products, you can get them in your hands (well, onto your hard drive) in a matter of minutes.

This site is intended to help you get better acquainted with the products you can buy for instant download and the process involved..have you started yet?.

Some of the most popular down-loadable products include music, movies, video games, eBooks, and complete interactive instruction courses.

We will be featuring products that have caught our eye.

Where do you get these digital products?

• Individual mp3 music tracks: Apple computers online store accounts for 85% of digital music sales, due in large part to their popular iTunes software being tightly linked to the Apple store.
• eBooks: Amazon Book’s propitiatory Kindle reaader format is their standard eBook format, those without a kindle can use Kindle viewer software or get pdf format books. The Kindle reader has it’s own internet connection, allowing it to have a copy of your daily newspaper waiting for you in the morning.  Many self published writers offer specialized “How To” titles seemingly priced in proportion to their guro status and your potential to profit from the education.
• Movies: There are sources of movies that play on your PC, that also can be burned onto DVD.  Services like Netflix offer movie for the big 3 game consoles: Wii, PS3 and XBOX360 as well as 25 other video devices allowing  you to “Watch Movies Instantly” over the internet, the Netflix service also works with computers and the iPad-iPhone.
• Games: Down-loadable games for PC are selling more than packaged games, Steam is a noteworthy provider. (PC games that don’t require a special game console are most popular in Europe) Online console content updates for Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network are beginning to appear on GameStop soon, official full game downloads are not yet available.
• Instruction Courses: Lynda.com offers over 890 online training courses covering computer applications and web development viewable on PCs and MACs for a flat $25 or $37.50 monthly fee.

VideoProfessor, best known for their free trial DVD commercials on TV offering 65 computer lessons added instant access online versions of the unit. Perhaps some of their billing practices that would shame the old Columbia Record Club has caught up with them, VideoProfessor went bankrupt, though their instructional units are expected to be made available be another company.

Digital product sales are growing considerably, due to the combined effect of the growing availability of high speed internet connections and an expanding number of digital product players , the long standing PC and portable mp3 players being joined by  hybrid cell-phone/mp3 players, (Kindal) digital book readers, netbook computers and their more hip counterparts tablet computers exemplified by the Apple iPad. Despite the addition of a sales tax for digital products levied by some states, the digital product industry is growing at a snappy rate, one example, digital textbooks for higher education are estimated  account for just 1% of  textbook sales, they are projected to account for 18.8% of sales in 2014, to the tune of $1.1 Billion.