One: to deter rival newspapers from launching free editions to capture a slice of the lucrative advertising spend.
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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.
But the free edition is fine for the casual astronomer.
Alternatives include an old favourite, AVG Free, and Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition.
Pamela Deron, a 29-year-old administrative assistant in Florida, said she downloaded a free edition of "Already Dead," the first in the Joe Pitt series, onto her Kindle this month.
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.
