Here’s everything you need to know – you can also check out our best deals for students.

Students in the USA have even further enticements, such as membership of Twitch TV, Prime Gaming, and the ability to rent textbooks.

To prove that you’re a current student, you’ll need your academic email address and be able to verify your status such as sending a photo of your student ID card. If you haven’t been issued an email address, you can still apply by sending other proof of enrolment to amazon-student-verification@amazon.co.uk.

These include scans of NUS Extra or NUS Apprentice Extra cards, a copy of the letter of enrolment from the university or academic body, a bill for tuition costs or other correspondence from the college or university confirming your student status.

You should now see a Start Trial button. At the time of writing, Microsoft had sponsored new student accounts so that they wouldn’t have to pay for the first six-months of membership.

By comparison, a regular Prime membership only allows up to 30 days in the trial version.

After six months, if you choose to keep your Prime Student membership, you only pay £39/$69 per year, or £3.99/$7.49 per month, which is half of the regular Prime subscription cost.

Can you cancel after the 6-month free trial?

Of course, being a student means you’re on a tight budget. If that £3.99/$7.49 per month is eating into your funds, you can cancel anytime.

If you want to know what’s on, see our round up of the best movies available on Prime Video this month. We’ve also rounded up the best TV shows on Prime Video.

Prime Reading – unlimited access to books, comics, and magazines

Learn more about Prime Reading here.

Prime Music – ad-free, curated music

Lightning Deals – exclusive Prime early access to limited-time offers

The advantage of a Prime membership is that you have access to Lightning Deals 30 minutes ahead of anyone else, which means you can avoid the rat race of getting those headphones or gaming keyboards before they’re all out.

Prime Photos – secure, unlimited photo storage

Prime Photo lets you access your photos from anywhere and from any device (your desktop, iOS or Android devices), and share your photos as well. Click here to get the Prime Photos app for Windows, Mac, Android or iOS.

Somrata researches and writes about the best tech deals to help readers make smart, informed buying decisions. She’s an expert on accessories and also reviews laptops, phones, audio and other devices.