My first thought is are they adding enough value to take a 30% cut off a digital subscription service?<p>But then I flipped the question to whether as a consumer, I would be more likely to be a digital subscription with a "Subscribe with Amazon" button.<p>Hell yes!<p>I just logged into my Economist account to try and cancel my subscription and failed to find any way to do that. Emailed support, they said "we would be happy to help you, call us during business hours...".<p>I would love all my subscriptions to be managed by Amazon under a single interface.<p>I would also be more likely to "try out a subscription" knowing I could easily get out of it without dancing through hoops.
I know someone who is about to launch a very niche "box of the month" type service, where a box of items are mailed out each month. This would have been great as she could just have an amazon subscriptions page and a static website that links to it.<p>But no, it's for "digital app, website, or software" only.<p>Why would I go to amazon.com to sign up for dropbox? I'm not getting it.
So just an FYI for those here who sign up or if anyone from Amazon reads this.<p>The phone number field gives you a "this field is required" error if you type dashes or any other non numeric characters in the field. Remove all non numeric to get past that error.<p>Also, the confirmation email that you receive after you sign up comes in with the word "Subject" on the email subject line. This threw me off a bit and I almost deleted it.
Quote: "How to Make Money<p>For a customer’s first year as a subscriber, you receive 70% of each transactional amount.<p>After a subscriber’s first year, your revenue increases to 85% of each transactional amount.
"<p>That's a bit more than Stripe or Braintree.
I can see this doing well for paid online training programs such as Treehouse and similar. Especially if Amazon does give you exposure and you end up being featured.<p>I don't see why you can't utilize this for the exposure in addition to a payment provider such as Stripe for the people that come directly to your site/app outside of Amazon.
If I integrate this into my app/saas product, is their support for one-off in-app purchases or can I only sell subscriptions without being able to sell digital goods as well?
Amazon through audible.com is an unethical rebiller, billing you every month for literally nothing once you hit 6 credits. You keep getting billed, yet you never accrue more than 6 credits max. This scam is why they can pay $50 a signup.