Amazon Is Offering 50% Off Prime Membership for Students, Plus Music Streaming From 99 Cents
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Back-to-school season isn’t over, and Amazon is offering up some huge discounts and special offers for students.
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Students can get a six-month free trial to Amazon Prime Student — the longest free trial that Amazon currently offers (for comparison, non-students get a 30-day free trial). After that, students can continue with Amazon Prime for $7.49 a month or $69 a year — 50% off the regular membership price.
Amazon Prime Student
Price: $14.99/month $7.49/month after six-month free trial
Keep reading for additional details on the many deals and discounts that you can get with Prime Student.
Amazon Prime Student Discounts
Amazon is all about perks. Here’s a breakdown of some of the epic deals for students.
1. Music Streaming
Prime Student members can access Amazon Music Unlimited for just $5.99/month for up to four years. The membership includes 50% off the regular price, plus free access to Amazon Music HD — the highest quality streaming audio you can currently find online.
2. TV and Movie Streaming
Your Prime membership already gets you access to all of Prime Video, which includes TV shows and movies such as Sitting in Bars With Cake, Red White & Royal Blue, The Summer I Turned Pretty, Daisy Jones & The Six, The Boys and hundreds of other programs. Want to upgrade your streaming channels? Prime Student members can also add Prime Video channels starting at just $0.99/month. Channels available at a discount include Showtime, Epix, Allblk, Shudder, Motortrend, Acorn TV, History Vault, Sundance Now, Lifetime Movie Club and more. Lock in the $0.99/month price for up to 12 months.
3. 2 Months of Kindle Unlimited for Free
Streamline your search for a job or internship with a free, two-month trial to Kindle Unlimited. You can barrow up to 20 books at a time and choose from a collection of four million digital titles such as fiction and nonfiction books, comics, newspaper and magazines.
4. Free Access to Calm for Three Months
Prime Student has a number of other offers with outside partners as well. Right now, Prime Students can get premium access to Calm – the popular meditation app for meditation and sleep. Use your Amazon account to access Calm’s content, including the app’s popular “Sleep Stories,” narrated by celebrities including Harry Styles, Nick Offerman, Leona Lewis, Matthew McConaughey and Regé-Jean Page. Prime Student members can get three months of Calm for free, and then continue on for just $8.99/year (normally $69.99/year).
5. Free Grubhub Membership
You can order groceries through Amazon Fresh, but your Prime Student account now includes a free Grubhub+ Student monthly membership too, which gets you a year of unlimited food delivery for on and off-campus orders over $12, special perks, donation matching and more.
6. Discounts on Tech, Electronics and Entertainment
Prime and Prime Student members already get access to fast and free shipping on dorm essentials and more, plus access to thousands of daily deals. And Amazon Prime members are the only ones who can shop Prime Day deals when the mega-sale returns next month.
Prime Student subscribers have access to a ton of discounts too, on everything from flights and hotels to speakers and TVs, home decor, kitchen gadgets and more. See the full list of savings at amazon.com/offtocollege. A 2021 study by e-commerce analytics firm Profitero found that Amazon offers the lowest prices on back-to-school products and college supplies among Walmart, Target and Best Buy, with at least an average 10% savings over other retailers.
See all the Prime Student perks and student discounts you can get right now by heading over to Amazon.com or click the link below to start your free trial to Prime Student. Want more deals? See our list of back-to-school sales on laptops, backpacks and other school supplies.