Amazon Launches Self-Service Marketplace for Subscription Providers

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 &quot;Subscribe with Amazon&quot; 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 &quot;we would be happy to help you, call us during business hours...&quot;.<p>I would love all my subscriptions to be managed by Amazon under a single interface.<p>I would also be more likely to &quot;try out a subscription&quot; knowing I could easily get out of it without dancing through hoops.

I know someone who is about to launch a very niche &quot;box of the month&quot; 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&#x27;s for &quot;digital app, website, or software&quot; only.<p>Why would I go to amazon.com to sign up for dropbox? I&#x27;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 &quot;this field is required&quot; 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 &quot;Subject&quot; on the email subject line. This threw me off a bit and I almost deleted it.

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Quote: &quot;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. &quot;<p>That&#x27;s a bit more than Stripe or Braintree.

Amazon always fails to make their payments services sufficiently international to be any use outside the US.

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&#x27;t see why you can&#x27;t utilize this for the exposure in addition to a payment provider such as Stripe for the people that come directly to your site&#x2F;app outside of Amazon.

If I integrate this into my app&#x2F;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.

Brilliant.