Kindle Fire Sale - Discounts: Student Exclusive: Large savings on Kindle Fire, w/ Student Prime, until 11:59 pm on Sept 1

Student Kindle Fire Discounts up to $70 off with Student Prime membership

I've been mostly away for some other projects, but after returning, I saw that Amazon has a special Kindle Fire tablet discount for students only, but it requires an active student version of Prime, which is $39.

Here's Amazon's announcement.  (The text is straight from the Amazon page, to show exactly what they're offering and what's required.)

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Save up to $70 on Select Kindle Fire Tablets: Exclusive Offer for Amazon Student Members

Special pricing is available on select Kindle Fire tablets to Amazon Student members with an active Prime account (six months free or $39/year plan). Join Amazon Student or start your discounted Prime membership to take advantage of this discount.  The promo codes below will become available 24 hours after activation of your account, through September 1.  New members, don't forget to check your .edu email and verify your account. 

How to Take Advantage of This Offer:

1. Place one of the tablets below in your cart.

2. At checkout, enter the appropriate promo code when prompted:

FIREHD89: Kindle Fire HD 8.9" for $199
FIREHDST: Kindle Fire HD for $149
FIREDEAL: Kindle Fire for $129

If you are an Amazon Student member in a free or paid Prime plan, the discount will be applied to the corresponding item in your cart.

3. Complete your order before this promotion expires at 11:59 p.m. PST on September 1, 2013."

[End of Amazon announcement]

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  These are actually very good deals.


For daily free ebooks, check the following links:

Temporarily-free books - Non-classics USA: by:    Publication Date      Bestselling   High-ratings UK: PubDate   Popular The Kindle Daily Deal What is 3G? and "WiFi"?       Battery Care Highly-rated under $1,  Newest: $1-$2, $2-$3

Most Popular Free K-Books U.S. & Int'l (NOT UK):    Top 100 free UK-Only:    Top 100 free Guide to finding Free Kindle books and Sources. USEFUL for your Kindle Keyboard (U.S. only, currently):   99c Notepad 1.1,   99c Calculator,   99c Calendar,   99c Converter

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Kindle News: Student-Prime: $50 off Kindle Fire HD 8.9" through Jan. 30, one per student

From Amazon's pages today:


I just saw this, and it's New Year's Day and I have to be out, so I'm taking Amazon's wording as-is from Amazon's promo page for this.  It's good through January, to be redeemed once per customer.  Here are Amazon's instructions - emphases mine.

Exclusive Discount on Kindle Fire 8.9"
Special Prime/Student pricing available only to Amazon Student Members with an active Prime account (free six-month or $39/year plan).  Join Amazon Student  or  start your discounted Prime membership  to take advantage of this sale.

  The promo codes below will become available 24 hours after activation of your account, through January 30
  The promo itself ends 11:59pm January 31.

  New members, don't forget to check your .edu email and verify your account.

How to Redeem This Deal
Place a Kindle Fire HD 8.9" or a Kindle Fire HD 8.9" 4G LTE Wireless  in your cart.
  At checkout, enter the promo code KNDL4STU.

  If you are an Amazon Student member in a free or paid Prime plan, the discount will be applied to the items in your cart.
  This promo code may be redeemed once per customer.  Offer good only while supplies last.

[From Amazon page]



  For daily free ebooks, check the following links:

Temporarily-free books - Non-classics USA: by:    Publication Date      Bestselling   High-ratings UK: PubDate   Popular The Kindle Daily Deal What is 3G? and "WiFi"?       Battery Care Highly-rated under $1,  Newest: $1-$2, $2-$3

Most Popular Free K-Books U.S. & Int'l (NOT UK):    Top 100 free UK-Only:    Top 100 free Guide to finding Free Kindle books and Sources. USEFUL for your Kindle Keyboard (U.S. only, currently):   99c Notepad 1.1,   99c Calculator,   99c Calendar,   99c Converter

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College student at home? Amazon Prime free for 1 yr for students

The Amazon Prime program's special offer for college students has been in the news for over a week and I felt it was a good way for Amazon to get college students to spend more money shopping at Amazon for their school and other needs :-)

And of course it is, since anyone with free 2-day shipping at an online store will favor that store for purchases.  A Win-Win, when you know that Prime usually costs the customer $79 a year ($6.58 per month).  At that normal rate, customers will buy more just to justify spending that much for shipping each month (when free supersaver shipping is often available for the ever patient), unless they already easily spend more than that as frequent purchasers who don't like to wait several ground-delivery days for UPS or USPS.

  As most Amazon shoppers know, especially those who feel they can't or won't afford it, Amazon Prime is the special shipping-feature plan that offers free 2-day shipping on most Amazon products or one-day shipping at a much lower rate than usual ($3.99). You are able to include 4 members of your household for that $79/yr as well.

  3rd party seller products often don't qualify for this program but I've been surprised lately to see some larger or more popular third-party stores participate in the Prime program.

Basically the Student Prime features for the free annual-rate offering, are:

Amazon Prime free for one year ($79 value)
  . Unlimited FREE Two-Day Shipping on textbooks and millions of other items
  . No minimum order size
  . Upgrades to One-Day shipping for $3.99/item
E-mail alerts for exclusive deals and promotions
It's free for students - sign up by providing your school and major

The Email alerts are not optional.  The student can say No to that but then they're not eligible for this free version of the program.  Fair enough, I'd say.

To qualify for this, the student must have a mailing address ending in ".edu" and provide a Major when signing up - the wording also says you should be "enrolled" in at least one course at the college.
  The terms agreed to include that further eligibility information may be requested.


College students can of course be current Amazon customers and they just provide the '.edu' email address and identify a Major to become eligible.  The .edu address is for the E-mail alerts for exclusive deals and promotions.

  Now, how Amazon 'sees' you as eligible for prime or not may depend on using that email address for purchases too, unless Amazon links your .edu address to your main email address for log-ins there.

 Here are two good bits of information from their Student FAQ:

' If you're already an Amazon Prime member, you can still sign up for Amazon Student if you are eligible.  After you sign up for Amazon Student, we ll refund you the remaining months left on your current Amazon Prime subscription.

When you sign up for Amazon Student, you'll receive e-mail alerts for discounts and promotions.  If you don't want any more Amazon Student e-mails, you may cancel your Amazon Student membership.
 If you do this, your Amazon Prime benefits will also end when the membership is canceled '

  They have been refunding the remainder of the regular Prime term subscription fee upon confirmation of a student's .edu email address.

  Amazon states the exclusive discounts and promotions will also be made available on the Amazon Student membership page.

What's not entirely clear is whether a student Prime account gets the normal benefit of including four other members of a household in that plan.  The Student FAQ page doesn't exclude this benefit.  All I've found so far is "We sometimes offer certain customers various trial or other promotional memberships, which are subject to these Terms except as otherwise stated in the promotional offers."  That's from the regular Amazon Prime Terms.

The Student Prime Sign-up page does, however, say that students will get the Amazon Prime package as described at their regular Amazon Prime FAQ page, which is directly linked as the package they're offering college students for free (currently).

To make sure you get the Amazon confirmation/certification mail, follow their advice here:
"To prevent Amazon.com's e-mail from going to your spam or junk folder, add amazon-student@amazon.com to your contacts or safe list."

Reference Pages:
Student Prime signup
Student Prime FAQ
Amazon Student page
Regular Amazon Prime FAQ
Regular Amazon Prime Terms & Conditions
Prime household-sharing instructions.


(For non-college students who might be interested in regular Prime, Amazon states: If you haven't been an Amazon Prime member in the last 13 months, you can sign up for a free trial.

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