There are a number of ways to do this. For simple download products I use uploadnsell.com. You get paid directly through your paypal account.
The only issue you might run into is file size which is limited to 30MB. There are simple shopping cart plugins for most website content management systems (ex. Wordpress, joomla) that can sell downloadable products.
You can always look to publish through itunes. The to this is so many people have itunes accounts with credit cards on file.
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