Listen Up Students: This Amazon Audible Deal Is For You
Photographed by Amanda Picotte. Listen up, students. (Literally.) Amazon is currently running a major back-to-school promotion for sneakers anyone interested in streaming the world's largest selection of audiobooks, podcasts, exclusive originals, and more. From today through September 30th, Amazon Fashion students can get three months free of Audible Premium Plus (normally $14.95 per month) as well as three free audio titles that'll be yours to keep forever. Here's what you need to know about scoring the deal. Let's start with the basics. What is Audible Premium Plus? In addition to streaming through your phone or computer, you can listen to Audible through Alexa-enabled devices, compatible Fire tablets, Kindles, Sonos devices, and more. The primary benefit of the Audible Premium Plus membership is one credit that can be used to buy a new title every month. Don't like a book? You can exchange it for a new title for up to a year. Any books purchased with credits are yours to keep forever.
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Members also get access to the Plus Catalog of Audible originals, podcasts, and titles for unlimited streaming. If you like the sound of that, here's what you need to know about unlocking the student deal for yourself: The promotion is available to Prime Students only. If you're not already enrolled, Prime Student members get the service free for a trial period of six months. After that, you'll be eligible to receive a discount on Amazon Prime at half price for $6.49 a month (normally $12.99 per month plus taxes, or $119 per year plus taxes). In addition to a hefty discount, students also get access to exclusive deals and discounts like the current Audible Premium Plus promotion. So, if your ears are itching for listening material, this is not a deal you want to miss. For your free six-month trial of Amazon Prime Student, sign up here. At Refinery29, we’re here to help you navigate this overwhelming world of stuff. All of our picks are independently selected and curated by the editorial team. If you subscribe to something we link to on our site, Refinery29 may earn commission. This conte nt was c reat ed by GSA Content Generator Demoversion!
Internal documents reveal how a former aide to Joe Biden helped the tech giant build a lobbying juggernaut that has gutted legislation in two dozen states seeking to give consumers more control over their data. Filed Nov. 19, 2021, 11 a.m. Amazon executives and staffers detail these lobbying victories in confidential documents reviewed by Reuters. In Virginia, the company boosted political donations tenfold over four years before persuading lawmakers this year to pass an industry-friendly privacy bill that Amazon itself drafted. In California, the company stifled proposed restrictions on the industry’s collection and sharing of consumer voice recordings gathered by tech devices. And in its home state of Washington, Amazon won so many exemptions and amendments to a bill regulating biometric data, such as voice recordings or facial scans, that the resulting 2017 law had "little, if any" impact on its practices, according to an internal Amazon document. The architect of this under-the-radar campaign to smother privacy protections has been Jay Carney, who previously served as communications director for Joe Biden, when Biden was vice president, and as press secretary for President Barack Obama. Article has been gener ated by G SA Content Generator D emoversion.
Hired by Amazon in 2015, Carney reported to founder Jeff Bezos and built a lobbying and public-policy juggernaut that has grown from two dozen employees to about 250, according to Amazon documents and two former employees with knowledge of recent staffing. One 2018 document reviewing executives’ goals for the prior year listed privacy regulation as a primary target for Carney. One objective: "Change or block US and EU regulation/legislation that would impede growth for Alexa-powered devices," referring to Amazon’s popular voice-assistant technology. The mission included defeating restrictions on artificial intelligence and biometric technologies, along with blocking efforts to make companies disclose the data they keep on consumers. This story is based on a Reuters review of hundreds of internal Amazon documents and interviews with more than 70 lobbyists, advocates, policymakers and their staffers involved in legislation Amazon targeted, along with 10 former Amazon public-policy and legal employees. It is the third in a series of reports revealing how the company has pursued business practices that harm small businesses or put its own interests above those of consumers.
