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What is Amazon Prime?
The short answer is that Amazon Prime is a yearly subscription service that gets customers free one- and two-day shipping on most items, e-books, music, video streaming, and special rates for Amazon services. But a Prime membership has so much more to offer! Access to the Kindle lending library, a free e-book each month, unlimited photo storage in Amazon Cloud Drive, unlimited and ad-free access to hundreds of Prime Playlists with Prime Music as well as free games with Prime.
Right now Amazon is offering a 30-day free trail, and after that an annual subscription rate is $119. For two- and four-year college students, Amazon offers a six-month free trial with many of the same perks as a regular membership. After that, their annual rate for membership is $59. A great gift for students heading off to college next month!
Why I Like Amazon Prime
I’ve been a customer of Amazon’s since 1998–yes, 20 years! Back then they were mostly a bookstore, and with no library system in our county (and still none, but hopefully that will change soon) I ordered a lot of books from Amazon. (Still do.) Back then I remember purchasing children’s books for my daughter and novels and how-to writing books. Over the years, Amazon has exploded with growth, and once or twice a month we “make an Amazon order,” more often as Christmas approaches. But don’t even get me started about Christmas and Amazon packages. The UPS guy is here so often in December I start to get him confused with family members!
We decided a couple of years ago to spring for Prime after Emily talked us into it. She had the student membership back then, and she convinced me that for the free (and fast) shipping alone the price of a membership was worth it. I consider it the main benefit for my membership. But I’m also a fan of the Kindle lending library and the free monthly e-book. I also like Prime Music and the wide assortment of playlists–again, particularly around Christmas time when I love playing music. Mike watches Prime Video, and I’ve been known to watch a few shows myself. To be honest, there are so many benefits that I don’t have time to take advantage of them all, but the price of the membership more than covers the cost of the benefits I regularly use.
The Fun Begins. . .
July 16 at 3:00 EST and runs through July 17, for a total of 36 hours! Tune in daily for updates.
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