Amazon Prime’s New Monthly Plans To Compete With Netflix

[Julio Urquidi]

Aside from its $99 per year subscription plan, Amazon Prime added two monthly plans that will appeal to subscribers not in interested in the service’s alternative year-long commitment.

The $10.99 per month plan includes all the features that the yearly Amazon Prime plan offers, including free two-day shipping (one-day shipping in some areas), unlimited movies, TV shows and music streaming and ebook access.

The $8.99 per month plan, the real Netflix competitor between the two packages, will give subscribers unlimited access to movies and TV shows.

The two monthly plans’ short-term commitment may sound attractive to some, but as Nick Wingfield of the New York Times points out, there is a cost difference as the monthly breakdown of the $99 annual plan is cheaper at $8.25 per month.

 

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Of course, this happens a couple of months after Netflix moved their entire cloud over to AWS...

Own your infra or get pwned...

 

[some dude]

I get free 2 day shipping since I have a business account. I tested it by ordering PC stuff, and 1 out of 10 items shipped from amazon. 2 day shipping was not offered. BIG disappointment. Sticking with newegg. They get your order processed faster also. Everything else I can pirate. Don't need to pay for movies or TV.