No stranger to presenting new products, Amazon’s has added different things from its regular collection of goods: digital subscriptions.

Subscribe with Amazon.com is the most recent addition to the retail giant’s ever-expanding repertoire, supplying a method for subscription-supported services to let customers check out directly through Amazon’s website.

Corresponding to a news release , Subscribe with Amazon . com will improve visibility by supplying a service its listing on the Amazon site, as well as easy-to-use APIs for conveniently owning a page and offering simple payment plans of the introductory, monthly, and twelve-monthly variety.

What does which means that for customers? For the standard Amazon shopper, the procedure of picking right up a couple of months of Consumer Reports or premium Dropbox access is almost exactly like adding other things to your Amazon cart.

Integration with Amazon . com does mean you can manage multiple subscriptions simply by checking one site — a boon to people who prefer devoid of their personal and mastercard information disseminate over twelve different online locations.

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Of course, Amazon . com is eventually owning a business, so services that go along with Subscribe with Amazon must fork over 30% of whatever they make from new subscribers, dropping to 15% for repeat buyers.

On top of that, Subscribe with Amazon . com also provides company an opportunity to improve the value of its subscription service. Amazon . com plans to provide special deals via Subscribe with Amazon exclusively for Amazon Prime members, like a discount on an electronic magazine subscription or a free of charge month of online crafts courses.

To be eligible for offering through Subscribe with Amazon . com, something currently must give a product via an app, website or software. Second, the business enterprise must be located in the united states. Finally, customers must pay a continuing charge gain access to the product.

This is definately not Amazon’s first look at at doing everything in-house for digital services. The business introduced Amazon . com Coins back 2013 as an incentivized, alternative digital currency for buying software and making in-app purchases, though they are currently exclusive to Amazon Fire devices. Reuters