I am really curious who is paying for the free applications you get when installing and using the Amazon Android market program?
Is it Amazon (to promote their software/online store)?
Is it the application/game developer?
Does anyone know?
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According to Amazon's developer agreement (see section 2(a)) a developer receives at least 20% of the price the developer sets for the app, regardless of the price Amazon actually sells it for. According to everything I've read, this applies when Amazon makes an app free; it's not a special case. Edit: They changed the agreement, adding the sentence "No Royalty is payable for Apps with a List Price of $0.00." This may or may not have changed the original meaning of the agreement; the definition of "List Price" (Section 5(i)) was thought by many, myself included, to mean the original price set by the developer. The wording is not clear and a lot of people obviously misunderstood what was supposed to happen. |
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Apparently nobody. The developer gets $0. http://shiftyjelly.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/amazon-app-store-rotten-to-the-core/ via http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/j6neg/amazon_app_store_rotten_to_the_core/ |
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I think it's Amazon who is paying for those apps. Amazon wants users to get used to using their store. The other answer provides better details. |
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