Apple Looking to Increase Exposure for Free App Store and iBookstore Content?

[charlituna]

Promoting paid apps that are temporarily free helps devalue the paid apps.

1. The developers are the ones that dropped the price
2. Apple, if this is true, are going way above what they are required to do. It's supposed to be the developer's responsibility to market their apps. NOT Apple.

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Does anyone know what fraction of the original price (0-100%) apple pays the developers for the downloaded free copies?

Nothing. The developers set the price and all sales so if they drop the price to free them they knowingly forego any money for that period.