From CNET: The e-commerce giant on Wednesday launched a new subscription streaming music service, Amazon Music Unlimited, with three levels to pay.
Like Spotify, Apple Music and virtually every other option out there, Amazon Music Unlimited charges consumers $10 a month for an ad-free, on-demand catalog of tens of millions of tracks. People who are already paying for Amazon's Prime membership program get a discounted rate of $8 a month, or $79 a year, to unlock the new full service on top of their $99 annual cost for Prime.
But if you're willing to make Amazon's Echo speakers your only source for listening, you can get the service for $4 a month, the cheapest option out there for commercial-free, fully on-demand tunes.
It's Amazon's bet that its Echo can help the company dominate music streaming in the home in a voice-command future, letting rivals duke it out to win control of mobile listening. The lower offer is another way to hook consumers into the idea of using the Echo, a speaker with access to Amazon's voice assistant, Alexa. The product has been a surprise hit, but faces fresh competition from Google Home.
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