Charging for subscriptions/downloads with Wordpress

Question

I have a customer who is interested in selling his set of tutorial screencasts, and he very much wants to do this using wordpress.

Has anyone any experience in selling subscriptions to wordpress sites, or selling digital downloads using wordpress, and is there anything I need to consider that I might have missed?

I'm currently looking at wp-e-commerce and also at other plugins that let you charge a subscription for access to a site, but I'm struggling to find any that don't have a cost attached. Are there any you can recommend?

Answer 1

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