I agree, if someone has access to PayPal and a credit card, you can't beat it for ease of use. But lacking either or both of those things shouldn't leave people completely out in the cold.
And I'm also concerned about the difference in exchange rates from place to place... in particular, places where the local currency is worth much less than the dollar, or where people's incomes in a day equal the cost of one of my books. (Granted, at incomes that low, you are not likely to have internet access, or even a computer, and probably have more pressing things on your mind, so the need for one of my books is also pretty small.)
The only way out that I see at this point is good ol' snail mail. It covers more areas than the internet, including areas where web access is prohibitively expensive or distant. And postal mail has the advantage of including a postmark that denotes the real origin of the letter, so fair exchanges can be made without the risk of someone in a more affluent area doing the equivalent of "spoofing" an IP address for a cheap deal.
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