What is Amazon Prime student, and is it worth it?

What is Amazon Prime educatee and is information technology worth it?

Amazon Prime Student is a cheaper version of Amazon Prime designed specifically for college students. Prime number Student gives higher students access to free 2-twenty-four hours aircraft and a diversity of other Amazon-specific services at one-half the price of the company's traditional Prime membership.

Membership as well gives students access to exclusive student deals. Amazon Prime Student is handy if you frequently buy from Amazon and use — or are interested in using — its other online services. Now that Presidents Twenty-four hour period sales are around the corner, Amazon Prime Student should be a no brainer for most students. Hither's a breakdown of what the service has to offer.

Not a Prime Educatee member? You lot can sign up for a complimentary half-dozen-month trial
Prime number Educatee subscribers can save $7 per calendar month on Prime Music Unlimited, the full-featured upgraded version of Prime number Music.

Amazon Prime Student cost

Even though Amazon raised the annual cost to $59 (monthly membership also jumped to $6.49), Amazon Prime Student is yet indispensable. Plus, students go a free six-calendar month trial, which is substantially longer than the 30-24-hour interval trial standard Prime members receive. Here's a break downwards of Amazon Student'southward main features.

Q.: What is Amazon Prime?

A.: Amazon Prime is an annual subscription program that provides several benefits for members. Subscribers are eligible for gratis two-day (and, in some cases, one-day) aircraft on most items and other delivery perks. Members also get unlimited streaming video and music, as well as special offers on other digital media. (For all of the details on Prime, see our consummate Amazon Prime FAQ.) Prime benefits include the following:

Prime Now: Gratuitous 2-hour delivery (and discounted 1-hour delivery) for tens of thousands of products from local stores (including Whole Foods) in select cities.
Prime Photos: Unlimited photograph storage in Amazon Cloud Drive.
Amazon Music Unlimited: Unlimited, ad-free access to more 1.5 million songs. Users can stream on demand or allow Amazon to select songs based on their taste. One yr for $0.99/month (was $iv.99/calendar month).
Prime number Gaming: Exclusive in-game loot, gratuitous games, gratis sub to Twitch.television receiver
Prime Early Admission: 30-minute early on access to Lightning Deals on Amazon.com and new sales on MyHabit.com.
Kindle: 2 gratis months to Kindle Unlimited
Kindle Owners' Lending Library: Hundreds of thousands of Amazon'southward Kindle e-books are available for a free one-month checkout. (Annotation: This perk is not available to Amazon Pupil members during the six-month free trial.)
Prime Instant Video: Unlimited streaming of tens of thousands of movies and Television episodes, including Amazon's original shows and older HBO content. (Note: This is not available to Amazon Student members during the six-month gratuitous trial.)

Q.: What is Amazon Prime Educatee?

A.: Amazon Student offers the same benefits every bit regular Amazon Prime ($99 per year), at a discount. It is available to students enrolled in at least one grade in a college or academy in the United States (including Puerto Rico as well every bit online universities).

Q.: How much does Amazon Prime Student cost?

A.: Amazon Student costs $59 per year or $vi.49 per month, afterwards a costless (limited) six-month trial flow. Verified students (you have to have an .edu electronic mail accost) are eligible for four years or until graduation — whichever comes starting time. After that, the membership will auto-renew itself at $119 per year. Students must pay revenue enhancement on the membership if they live in Arizona, California, Florida, Kentucky, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia or Wisconsin.

Q.: Are there other special benefits for students?

A.: Amazon Student has a referral plan that pays $5 to both the pupil beingness referred and the student who refers them. Amazon has requirements for how y'all deliver the invite to a swain student, by sharing a link on social media or by using Amazon'due south email form to transport the invite.

Q.: Are at that place other budget options for Amazon Prime?

A.: Amazon Households allows two adults to share membership benefits. So it could exist an option for student roommates, simply it saves simply one extra dollar over Amazon Pupil. Alternatively, you can opt for the $6.49/month programme and cancel it the months you don't program to use it.

Q.: Which items become free aircraft with Amazon Prime number?

A.: Well-nigh items that Amazon sells straight or through "qualified sellers" are eligible for free two-day shipping with Amazon Prime number. Some of those products are also eligible for free one-mean solar day shipping. Oversize items, such as heavy furniture or larger TVs, get free standard shipping. Items sold through third parties (via Amazon Market place) are ineligible for Prime number shipping discounts.

Q.: Is there a catch?

A.: You can't share your membership with others in your household, equally you can with a standard Prime subscription. Though Prime Photos and discounts on new video game releases are included in the six-month free trial period, students exercise non have admission to Amazon'due south Prime Music, Prime Instant Video or Kindle Lending Library.

Q: What if I desire music, video and Kindle offerings now?

A.: You tin sign up for a full Prime number paid subscription at whatsoever time; you don't have to wait for the vi-month trial to end.

Q.: What's the argument against subscribing to Amazon Pupil?

A.: Y'all may not need Amazon Prime for the costless shipping benefits. Purchases that exceed $35 already get costless delivery.

As far as the additional benefit of streaming services goes, if you are happy with other streaming video or music services you already subscribe to (such as Hulu, Netflix, Apple Music or Spotify), Amazon'southward media offerings may not provide you with anything new. (Check Amazon Prime number's video and music listings to see.) The same is true if you lot don't read e-books, or if you use another reader, such as Apple iBooks or Google Play Books.

Q.: How tin can I sign up for Amazon Student?

A.: If you don't have an Amazon business relationship, start by setting ane upward here. It'due south complimentary, but y'all will accept to annals a credit card so that Amazon has a way to charge you for purchases.

You'll also take to verify that you lot are a educatee. A college-issued email accost ending in .edu qualifies you. (Information technology'southward just for receiving a confirmation email from Amazon and doesn't take to exist the address y'all use for your Amazon account.) Otherwise, you'll accept to electronic mail Amazon a scan of a document proving you are a pupil, such as a transcript or a educatee ID. Amazon.com explains the details.

If, during the trial catamenia, you lot decide that Amazon Pupil isn't worth paying for, go to your business relationship (earlier the trial menses ends), select Manage Prime number Membership and click Do Not Go on.

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