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Prime Video, home to popular shows such as "The Grand Tour",
"Transparent" and "The Man in the High Castle", will now be
bundled with Prime subscriptions in 19 countries including
India, Canada and France.
In other new regions, Prime Video customers will have to pay
$2.99 or 2.99 euros per month for the first six months, after
which the price will be doubled to $5.99 or 5.99 euros.
Amazon has been spending heavily, sometimes at the cost of
profits, on the creation and marketing of movies and TV shows.
The company hopes that people will sign up for its Prime service
to watch these videos - and in turn buy more goods from its
online store to make the annual subscription worth it.
The Prime Video launch comes almost a year after Netflix Inc
went global with its video-streaming service - rolling it out in
more than 130 countries with the notable exception of China.
Subscriptions for Netflix, known for shows such as "Stranger
Things", "Daredevil" and "Narcos", start at $8.99.
Amazon Prime Video members can also access videos offline on
mobile devices, a feature Netflix introduced late last month.
(Reporting by Aishwarya Venugopal in Bengaluru; Editing by
Saumyadeb Chakrabarty)
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