Launched in 2012, Easy Digital Downloads was built to sell digital products and exclusively digital products. In the infancy of eCommerce with WordPress, Easy Digital Downloads was the only tool that was wholly dedicated to the purchase and delivery of digital goods. All other platforms focused on selling physical products and left digital goods as an after thought.
Today Easy Digital Downloads is not the exclusive option but it’s still an active project and one of the standard choices for selling digital products through WordPress.