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does anyone know how the free app-a-day promotion is being handled? does amazon pay the developer 20% of the price for each free download?

benjamind 15y ago
By most accounts I have read they do indeed pay you 20% of the list price for free downloads. Though I have not yet experienced this for myself, as I have been very wary of the Amazon AppStore terms.
cubicle67 15y ago
point 9: "Furthermore, Amazon dictates that developers cannot set their list price above the lowest list price "available or previously available on any Similar Service." In other words, if you want to sell your content anywhere else, you cannot prevent Amazon from slashing the price of your game by setting a high list price. And if you ever conduct even a temporary price promotion in another market, you must permanently lower your list price in Amazon's market." This seems to imply that if you offer your app in a free-app-a-day promotion, you're required to offer it for free permanently to Amazon, although there's no way that can be correct [Edit: it seems I misunderstood the parent comment. I'm referring here to free-app-a-day promotions like this http://www.freeappaday.com/ http://www.freeappaday.com/. I wan't aware Amazon offered something similar I was saying it looked like if a developer promoted their app on a site like this, point 9 make it look like they'd be forced to offer it for free, forever, on the Amazon store]
- benjamind 15y ago
  I do not think this applies to Amazons own listing of your apps. Therefore they can list your app for free, pay you 20% of your list price for downloads of the app and force you to not make 'free' promotions on other markets with point 9 as you described.
- mattmcknight 15y ago
  "And if you ever conduct even a temporary price promotion in another market, you must permanently lower your list price in Amazon's market." seems to not be entirely accurate with regards to the prior statement "cannot set their list price above the lowest list price available or previously available on any Similar Service". If the _list_ price on the similar service doesn't change, but there is a temporary promotion on the similar service, this condition would seem to _not_ apply.
dspillett 15y ago
If the app being free for a day is their choice then yes, they will pay 20% of the minimum list price in that period (as 0.2 x List will be more than 0.7 x Free). If you dare give your app away for a day or allow another marketplace to do so, and sell your app via Amazon now or at any time in the future, you must permanently reduce your minimum list price at Amazon to $0.00 meaning that from this point they could give your app away for free as often as they like and give you nothing (0.2x0.00 == 0.7x0.00 == 0.00). Essentially this means you can't give an exclusive offer to anyone other than Amazon, including via your own site if I'm understanding correctly, without also giving Amazon the option of the same offer (meaning is isn't much of an exclusive) and not just now: they have the option of running the offer when-ever and how often they like now and at any time in the future.

benjamind 15y ago

By most accounts I have read they do indeed pay you 20% of the list price for free downloads. Though I have not yet experienced this for myself, as I have been very wary of the Amazon AppStore terms.

cubicle67 15y ago

point 9: "Furthermore, Amazon dictates that developers cannot set their list price above the lowest list price "available or previously available on any Similar Service." In other words, if you want to sell your content anywhere else, you cannot prevent Amazon from slashing the price of your game by setting a high list price. And if you ever conduct even a temporary price promotion in another market, you must permanently lower your list price in Amazon's market." This seems to imply that if you offer your app in a free-app-a-day promotion, you're required to offer it for free permanently to Amazon, although there's no way that can be correct [Edit: it seems I misunderstood the parent comment. I'm referring here to free-app-a-day promotions like this http://www.freeappaday.com/ http://www.freeappaday.com/. I wan't aware Amazon offered something similar I was saying it looked like if a developer promoted their app on a site like this, point 9 make it look like they'd be forced to offer it for free, forever, on the Amazon store]

benjamind 15y ago
I do not think this applies to Amazons own listing of your apps. Therefore they can list your app for free, pay you 20% of your list price for downloads of the app and force you to not make 'free' promotions on other markets with point 9 as you described.
mattmcknight 15y ago
"And if you ever conduct even a temporary price promotion in another market, you must permanently lower your list price in Amazon's market." seems to not be entirely accurate with regards to the prior statement "cannot set their list price above the lowest list price available or previously available on any Similar Service". If the _list_ price on the similar service doesn't change, but there is a temporary promotion on the similar service, this condition would seem to _not_ apply.

dspillett 15y ago

If the app being free for a day is their choice then yes, they will pay 20% of the minimum list price in that period (as 0.2 x List will be more than 0.7 x Free). If you dare give your app away for a day or allow another marketplace to do so, and sell your app via Amazon now or at any time in the future, you must permanently reduce your minimum list price at Amazon to $0.00 meaning that from this point they could give your app away for free as often as they like and give you nothing (0.2x0.00 == 0.7x0.00 == 0.00). Essentially this means you can't give an exclusive offer to anyone other than Amazon, including via your own site if I'm understanding correctly, without also giving Amazon the option of the same offer (meaning is isn't much of an exclusive) and not just now: they have the option of running the offer when-ever and how often they like now and at any time in the future.