Apple:
We’re pleased to announce that Mac apps will soon be eligible to participate in the Volume Purchase Program for Business and Education. The Volume Purchase Program allows businesses or educational institutions to purchase multiple copies of your app at once.
You may also offer a discount to educational institutions for multiple purchases. If you choose to offer a volume discount for an app, institutions that purchase 20 or more copies of that app in a single order will receive a 50-percent discount.
In recent years, Apple has paid a lot more attention to iOS education customers, leaving schools heavily invested in the Mac behind. With this move, the Mac App Store will become a lot more useful to schools, but it’s ridiculous it took them so long. My guess is the number of indie, paid apps used in school labs and 1-1 programs is about to skyrocket.