Which is best for me to sell downloadable pdf patterns, a blog or website?

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  donnakaylacey · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 2:47 am

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  I started a blog and purchased ‘www.donnakaylacey.com’ to promote myself as a crochet designer. As of now, I am blogging occassionally about new patterns and linking to where people can purchase the patterns. But, I would like to have a blog/website where people could purchase them directly from the blog/site. All patterns are pdf files. Is there any way to sell these pdf pattern files directly from my blog or should I have created a website instead of a blog? If I end the blog and start a website, how do I transfer my domain name?
  Blog url: http://donnakaylacey.wordpress.com/

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Dec 20, 2011 at 7:36 am

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  I’m afraid e-commerce isn’t possible here at WordPress.com.

  If you require e-commerce/shopping cart functionality, you might be interested in a self-hosted (WordPress.org) installation. There are no restrictions on e-commerce if you set up a self-hosted WordPress.org blog instead of a WordPress.com blog, but there are some added responsibilities.

  Please see this link to learn about the differences:
  http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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