Abstract: The invention introduces many-to-many mediated commercial electronic publishing, warehousing, marketing, and distribution of all types of digital content and electronic files. The system and method enables independent publishers to make available their authorial works to anyone with access to a machine capable of interpreting and displaying digital data, which includes an input means for the user to communicate with the system. The system further provides for instantaneous delivery of the purchased works. The system allows for independent authors to upload digital documents (and/or any other binary image) to a searchable database, define the terms of sale and descriptive information, protect document end-use with digital rights management, and retain all intellectual property rights and control at all times. The system also offers both publishers and purchasers the ability to conduct business without the need for individual human contact or disclosure of purchaser or seller contact information.