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by subaruWRX55 5223 days ago
"$35 comes from acquiring digital video content"

The digital content should not be considered in Prime membership cost. People buy into Prime membership for the free shipping, not the digital content. Rather, free digital content is meant to give people's foot into the door of Amazon streaming platform.

The digital content is more of a market development cost for the fledgling platform Amazon is creating.