Yahoo News 6 great benefits of Amazon Prime that NO-ONE tells you
As an Amazon Prime member, or someone who's interested in it as you clicked through to here, you no doubt already know all about the one-day free delivery – mainly because it's the most obvious and long-standing benefit of signing up.
You'll also no doubt know about Amazon Prime Video, which has a whole bunch of exclusive series and movies available for streaming, from The Grand Tour to Transparent.
But there's actually a whole load of other cool things you get as part of the Amazon Prime service that no-one seems to know about as Amazon seemingly can't be arsed to tell you. So thankfully we're here to point you in the general direction of the awesome stuff.
1. Prime Pantry
If you're using a supermarket delivery service to get your weekly shopping, you might not be aware that Amazon offers exactly the same service – but for a more cost-effective price.
Prime Pantry is Amazon's virtual supermarket, a kind of bare-bones Ocado, and Prime members can get their necessities delivered for a first box rate of £2.99 and a subsequent 99p for each additional box.
With frequent discounts and offers (you currently get a £10 reward for spending £30, for example) and pretty much every essential name brand available for delivery, this is a seriously underrated element of Prime.
2. Kindle Lending Library
Sure, if you're an Amazon Prime subscriber you'll no doubt use it for your Kindle, but did you know that there's a separate app altogether that allows you to read books FOR FREE?
(Well, one book a month, anyway.)
If you're a Prime member, you can borrow books from the Kindle Owners' Lending Library and read them on your Kindle e-reader, Fire tablet or Fire phone.
You get to keep them for as long as you like, as long as you 'return' them (by basically choosing to lose access to them) before you 'borrow' another book.
3. First Reads
Speaking of books, Kindle's Lending Library isn't the only way to get access to cheap (or even free!) novels. First Reads allows you to pick up Amazon's Kindle selections (which change monthly) for free, or for the low price of £3.99.
4. Prime Music
Amazon has two Spotify-like song-streaming offerings – Music Unlimited, its 40 million-song-strong premium service that it promotes heavily for a £7.99 monthly fee (or discounted to £79 a year if you have Prime).
And Prime Music, which it says very little about and has just two million songs but, crucially, is totally free as a Prime member. It can be listened to ad-free and on-demand from all of your devices, too, which is kind of great.
You can get lots more information here.
5. Twitch Prime
One of the biggest forms of entertainment that not everyone has heard of, Twitch is a live streaming platform – think real-time YouTube – that allows creatives of all persuasions to build a large audience and potentially accrue live donations to support their output.
While Twitch originally started as a way for gamers to live stream directly to their fans, it has since expanded and as of May 2018 it had some 2.2 million broadcasters monthly and 15 million daily active users – which is pretty damn huge.
The twist is that Amazon actually acquired Twitch in 2014 and has since created Twitch Prime, which includes free games and in-game content, a channel subscription every 30 days at no additional cost, ad-free viewing and exclusive content. So go seek it out.
6. Amazon Student
Considering the fact that a large percentage of Twitch users are either students or close to being students, it's also cool that Amazon offers a special deal specifically for that demographic.
As part of Amazon Student, university goers can get free access to Prime benefits for six months, a package which includes next-day delivery, Prime Video AND Prime Music.
After the six months, students can then extend membership at £39 per year, which is still half price. Nice!
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