Bad news if you pay your Amazon Prime membership on a monthly basis: your membership fee is going up.
What Amazon REALLY wants you to do is pay up front.
...if you bite the bullet and pay the $99 yearly fee all up front, pricing will stay the same. In other words, the company would really like to just lock you into that lump sum.
My wife and I pay the yearly fee and are pleased with it...we get free shipping and access to the video streaming service.
We also have an Amazon Echo. Did you know that if say, "Alexa, play Newsradio 1040 WHO," she will? This also works on Google Home as well.