Amazon's new streaming music student deal is insanely cheap
Amazon Music Unlimited faces tough competition against Spotify and Apple Music.
As Amazon is wont to do, the service is battling its competitors by slashing prices. A student subscription to Amazon Music Unlimited now costs $6 for six months.
After that crazy cheap $1-a-month deal ends, students will pay $4.99 a month.
That's the same as Spotify and Apple Music's student rates, which are also $4.99 a month. Those services, though, don't have the six-month promo that costs nearly nothing to get students to subscribe in the first place.
Subscribing to these music streaming services usually costs around $9.99 a month. Amazon Music Unlimited, which launched last October, offers a discounted $7.99 a month membership to Amazon Prime members.
A lot of students already have Prime, since there's a hefty half-price discount for students.
Amazon wouldn't have slashed prices to $1 a month if it weren't trying to steal away some of Spotify's 60 million subscribers.
Amazon says its new deal is available for a limited time only, so if you want to make the switch, get subscribing.
Emma Hinchliffe is a business reporter at Mashable. Before joining Mashable, she covered business and metro news at the Houston Chronicle.
