amazon prime raise
Prime Now offers household items and essentials you need everyday plus the best of Amazon, delivered to your doorstep. Choose Free 2-hour delivery or 1-hour delivery in select cities. GeekWire Summit: Early-bird tickets here! Netflix, watch out. That’s the conclusion from some analysts after Amazon’s big announcement late Sunday, as the e-commerce giant rolled out a monthly Prime membership for its video streaming service at $8.99 per month. As a Prime member, you can watch thousands of popular movies and TV shows at no extra cost, including Amazon Originals. Amazon previously only sold Prime memberships at a $99 per year rate, with video streaming of TV shows and movies included as a perk. Now customers can subscribe on a month-to-month basis for either Prime video or the full membership. Current Amazon Prime members will pay the increased fee when they renew, starting on April 17. Any new customer who signs up starting March 20 will also pay $99. The good news, at least for those without Prime yet, is that the $79 price will be available for the next week for new customers. Amazon Prime-Enjoy fast free shipping, exclusive access to movies and TV shows, ad-free music, unlimited photo storage, and Kindle books. On Thursday, Amazon announced that the annual price of Amazon Prime, a service which gives members free two-day shipping on millions of eligible items, will increase from $79 to $99. The discounted fee of students will be going from $39 to $49. Prime Originals, exclusively on Prime Video Prime Video is the only place where you can watch Prime Original series like The Tick, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Jean-Claude Van Johnson, and The Last Tycoon. Breaking off Prime video as a separate monthly offering is another example of Amazon taking on Netflix, which recently upped the price of its standard streaming service for long-time subscribers from $7.99 per month to $9.99. It's the first time Amazon has increased the annual fee on its popular membership program in its nine-year existence. In addition to free shipping on some items, Prime customers get access to Amazon's library of more than 40,000 streaming movies and television shows and to Amazon's Kindle Owner's Lending Library of books to read.
Amazon announced that the annucal price of Amazon Prime will increse from $79 to $99.