question about buying scrivener in advanced before the new version comes out

[tokyowriter]

Hello.

If I understand correctly, if I buy scrivener today, I will get access to the next version of scrivener for free. Does this also apply if I buy the version of the education license or is that only for the regular licence?

Thanks

[devinganger]

This discussion should answer your question:

I spent the most useful 99$ in a long time.

Educational licences are eligible for discounted update pricing, just the same as the regular version. Scrivener 2 users who purchased using the educational discount have been updating to Scrivener 3 at the $25 update price just the same as regular licence holders, and the same will be true in the future (not that I’m even thinking about Scrivener 4 yet!). The only difference is with cross-grades, as mentioned up-thread. Other than that one minor difference, the only difference between the educa…

@KB

Educational licences are eligible for discounted update pricing, just the same as the regular version. Scrivener 2 users who purchased using the educational discount have been updating to Scrivener 3 at the $25 update price just the same as regular licence holders, and the same will be true in the future (not that I’m even thinking about Scrivener 4 yet!). The only difference is with cross-grades, as mentioned up-thread. Other than that one minor difference, the only difference between the educational and regular licences are the price.

[tokyowriter]

Thank you for sharing that.
Just as a clarification, do you know if this discounted updates applies to the current free update offer for those who purchase the scrivener 1 (for windows)?

edit: fixed mistakes in my above question

[xiamenese]

@tokyowriter

Thank you for sharing that.
Just as a clarification, do you know if this discounted updates applies to the current free update offer for those who purchase the scrivener 2?

KB was referring to Mac version 2; there is no stable version 2 for Windows. The v. 3 beta is numbered 2.9 for some arcane technical reason, I believe. It will be released as v. 3.0 when ready.

[tokyowriter]

Right. So I’m looking at the information on the scrivener website and it specifically mentions that people who purchase scrivener for windows will receive a free update to scrivener 3 for windows when it comes out. My apologies for not clarifying which version I wanted to purchase. So I am trying to figure out if I am still eligible for the free upgrade if I get the windows version with the education discount.

[devinganger]

To the best of our knowledge, yes – if you purchase Scrivener for Windows 1.9 with the educational discount today, you should get the free upgrade to Scrivener for Windows 3.x when it releases.

[Twolane]

• A version of Scrivener for Windows 3? Excellent! When will it be coming out? Is there a beta? When will the beta expire? Will a new beta be available before the old beta expires?

I didn’t realize the L&L team was so retro trendy.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Windows_3.0

• Sorry, but sometimes I just can’t help it.

[devinganger]

@Twolane

Sorry, but sometimes I just can’t help it.

One should at least try.