Zipidee.com - The Digital Marketplace

You've got eBay et. al for the selling and buying of boats, shoes, cocktail dresses, old hardware parts, anything really that you can get your hands on. Zipidee wants to be the eBay of digital goods. These are intangible bits, for the most part, that reside in the circuitry of your gadgets—things like mp3's, e-books, wallpapers, ringtones and audio guides. With Zipidee merchants can create their own virtual stores to sell and list their wares for sale on Zipidee itself or through its widgets. Merch can be rented and sold via downloads or even streams. Prices are set by the seller and sales can be tracked with the analytics dashboard. Zipidee also offers its own DRM which sellers can use to protect their products. For their services, Zipidee will apply a dollar listing fee and they'll take a small cut of the profits.

"Zipidee is the internet's largest marketplace for buying and selling digital goods online. Zipidee provides tools for sellers to market, distribute, and sell original digital goods: video, music, ebooks, ringtones and wallpapers."

This gives independent creators of digital content e.g. audiobooks or do it yourself instructional series an easy way to sell their goods without having to invest money or set up a website. The DRM option is flexible, works well for those producing educational/informational materials. Zipidee offers stream rentals, which sets it apart from the rest.

Is the digital goods marketplace a viable enough space? How many people are into ebooks or audiobooks, etc.? Will people scoop up this type of stuff in droves? Hasn't the current DRM debate proved that DRM isn't what the people are looking for?