Anyone know of a way to use a shopping cart (such as paypal) on a personal website to automatically send digital info (ebook, lists, info) once a buyer pays? I know you can link these items to an email, but this is quite time-consuming and unprofessional. any help would be great.
Yes, you can do it by creating a splash page.
One of your most important lessons in the world I will tell you, is creating a splash page that can accept direct pay.
If you can do that, there is an even more important market that you can access immediately.
Creating a splash page is not hard. However, you first must know how to write an e-book and then how to do the proper HTML and instructions to do the splash page.
You can also get it for free with a website creator by microsoft, or sometimes dreamweaver. I will PM you some info you'll find important as it will be a great help.