"free edition" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it to refer to a version of something that is offered for free. For example, "This textbook comes in a free edition with limited features."
But the free edition is fine for the casual astronomer.
Alternatives include an old favourite, AVG Free, and Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition.
The free edition of the app allows you to work on only one script at a time.
There is also an attractively designed free edition for Windows Phone, though it seems trickier to switch between the dictionary and the thesaurus in that one.
In the free edition, some of the features are limited, like not being able to set a different color scheme for each timer you have running.
The National Trust's latest free edition of Green Transport News has lots of ideas for days out that cut the number of cars carrying visitors to its properties.
One: to deter rival newspapers from launching free editions to capture a slice of the lucrative advertising spend.
Although the paper has flirted with free editions ever since Standard Lite in 2004, there was little hint of this radical change when the Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev bought 75.1% of the paper from Daily Mail and Lite owners Associated Newspapers in February.
Everything on Issuu is free or promotional right now, but you can find previews and free editions of books from Penguin, Random House and indie magazines.
Tagore's works circulated in free editions around 1920 alongside those of Plato, Dante, Cervantes, Goethe, and Tolstoy.
For years, he published newspapers in both German and English, distributing free editions to all Milwaukee homes on the eve of elections.
