Amazon Prime Offers Six Months of the Washington Post for Free

Jeff Bezos is packaging together two of his biggest products: Amazon Prime and The Washington Post, which he purchased two years ago.

As of today, Amazon is beginning to offer cheap Washington Post subscriptions as a benefit to Prime subscribers. Prime subscribers are now able to get the paper’s National Digital Edition — basically, most of the content on its website and app — free for six months and for $3.99 per month after that. That would put a yearly subscription at just under $48, a pretty steep discount on the normal price of $130 per year.

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This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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