Amazon launches ‘Subscribe with Amazon,’ a marketplace for digital subscriptions
This story was published originally on TechCrunch.
The service has been in development since last year, and has been quietly live on Amazon’s site for some time. However, it has not been broadly promoted to consumers — something that changes today, with the announcement that it’s open for sign-ups.
Many of the digital subscriptions available on the marketplace were things Amazon was already selling — like , or access to its kids’ reading app Amazon Rapids or its toy-of-the-month club, STEM Club, for example. But the new portal for Subscribe with Amazon aggregates and organizes all the different types of subscriptions under one roof.
It also offers consumers a single destination where those subscriptions can be managed via an online dashboard.
A few of the more notable names available on the site include Disney Story Central, a subscription-based service for kids’ stories featuring popular Disney characters; Fitbit’s Fitstar personal training platform; Creativebug’s online art and craft classes; cloud storage service Dropbox Plus; streaming TV service Sling TV; meal planning and recipe subscription eMeals; concert membership service Jukely; and meditation service Headspace.
Amazon is also selling subscriptions to publications, like The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, The New Yorker and Consumer Reports. Others live at launch include Texture, LegalZoom, MileIQ and Tawkify.
Source: TechCruch
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