How to convert Aperture license to app store license? Possible Duplicate:
  Can I update apps that I&#39;ve already purchased through the Mac App Store?  




Long ago I bought the retail box version of Aperture and have been steadily upgrading until the current version.  I no longer have the DVD, but I do have a valid license and serial number. 

I just bought a new Mac Mini and quickly installed all my previously-purchased apps from the Mac App store.  I'd like to download Aperture this way, but don't want to buy it again. 

Question: Is there any means to convert my current license to an App store license? I was hoping that when the App Store was first deployed, it would recognize my apple software and pull it into the App store model, but it did not.  (Aperture and iWork updates happen outside the app store because I didn't buy them there). 

Hope that all makes sense.

Thanks!
From an accepted answer by Kyle Cronin from another Ask Different question, with added emphasis:


  From Daring
  Fireball:
  
  
    […] for apps that use the  same bundle ID for the both the Mac  App
    Store and non-App Store versions,  the Mac App Store will not install 
    updates to already-installed non-App  Store versions, but it will
    recognize  them as being already installed. If  you want to get
    updates via the Mac  App Store, you’ll have to re-buy the  app through
    the App Store.