I have a short film that has been free for Prime viewing, plus rent/buy for non Prime members for some time. I logged into my dashboard the other day and under the availability tab, it shows Prime viewing is “no longer available”. It looks like they changed a policy without telling me? I’ll have to go back through emails to see if I missed something.
Upshot: I’m making more money on rentals than I was making before on prime streams.
Downside: I’m getting some bad reviews from those who didn’t understand what they're paying for.
My current solution is to adjust the description of the film to clarify that it’s a 6 minute short with extras, not a 32 minute short. Some negative comments were regarding the ratio of content to bonus features. :)
J. Horton has a lot of very helpful information on his YouTube channel concerning Amazon Prime and indie content.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmvatwf1ox5n_szo8snLNnw
I see Amazon as “the devil you know”. Yes, they change their terms often, but the usually let me know. I was just wondering if others have seen this happen and did I miss a policy update.