Amazon’s new service delivers photo prints to your doorstep

Amazon's new service delivers photo prints to your doorstep

By Parker Wilhelm

Amazon's new service delivers photo prints to your doorstep

Because having tens of millions of unique items for sale, a mail-by-drone service in the works, its own line of mobile devices, and an original TV streaming service still left some holes in its resume, Amazon just added a new service to its repertoire: photo printing.

Enter Amazon Prints, an on-demand printer service where users can have photos, albums, calendars, and even stationary sent to their doorstep at the etail giant’s trademark competitive prices.

Prints come in 4 x 6, 5 x 7, and 8 x 10 sizes, priced at $0.09, $0.58, and $1.79 each, respectively. Meanwhile, hardcover albums start at $19.99 and come in either glossy or matte page finishes, depending on what you think will make your pics ‘pop’ more.

Not only does Prints beat out the rates of long-time online printing source Shutterfly, but Amazon also plans to offer free shipping for a limited time on orders over $15.

Photo finish

There is one snag, though. Amazon Prints requires that the images be uploaded via Prime Photos, which comes as part of Amazon’s $99/year premium subscription service.

If not, photos will have to be uploaded from Amazon Drive – another paid service that runs $59.99/year.

This means taking …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components

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