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Amazon offers Prime members free trial to Washington Post

All 94 episodes of “Sex and the City” are now available on Amazon Prime Instant Video, available to USA members of the $99-per-year Prime free-shipping program.

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Bezos said he’d like to use what he’s learned building Amazon to improve the Washington Post’s digital footprint. Digital-only national subscriptions-which exclude local news on mobile platforms-have a standard rate of $99 per year. Millions of Amazon Prime customers will soon have access the paper’s digital edition, receiving access to Post articles free of charge for the first six months of membership.

“Prospects love the comfort of getting objects delivered proper to their doorways in underneath an hour”, mentionedStephenie Landry, director of Amazon’s Prime Now service.

Bezos, who has admitted to not having adequate know-how on the newspaper business, purchased the newspaper in 2013 just to offer Kindle Fire users a free Washington Post app. If not for the Washington Post access, Amazon consumers may be lured to up their Prime subscription because of the company’s expanding services and perks for its Prime program. For a restricted time, members who should not now subscribed to The Washington Submitcan begin a free trial of The Washington Publish Nationwide Version by merely visiting www.washingtonpost.com/primeoffer and signing in with Amazon credentials.

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Yesterday (Sept. 16) the company announced Prime members will receive six months of free and unlimited access to The Washington Post National Digital Edition, which retails for a subscription price of $9.99 per month. Amazon doesn’t disclose how many people belong to the Prime program but there are an estimated 35 million to 40 million members.

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