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Amy Skorheim for Engadget If you read a lot of books, a subscription is worth looking into. Kindle Unlimited is essentially Amazon's Netflix for books, and grants you access to millions of digital books, comics and magazines for $12 per month. Kobo has a direct competitor called Kobo Plus, which costs $8 per month for an ebook or audiobook-only membership, or $10 per month if you want both. Kobo Plus has fewer available titles than Kindle Unlimited (around 1.5 million versus the latter's over 4 million), and Amazon requires self-published authors on its platform to agree to an exclusivity clau

A lot. Last year, Prime Day featured over 100,000 deals, and while many of them were small discounts on tiny products, there were also a ton of great deals on those larger items mentioned above. The biggest deals will be on TVs, laptops, e-bikes and vacuums (especially robo vacs), as well as power stations and grills for the outdoors. For 2026, Amazon's announcement is already teasing early deals with up to 65% off Amazon devices and on books, Audible and Prime Video. So, that's a good place to start. We'll also be rounding up our picks for the best early deals as they drop, so you're not wadi

This will be the first time in a while that Amazon is holding its summer Prime Day event so early. Prime Day has traditionally been held in July, but will officially kick off on June 23 this year. However, this wouldn't be the first shift we've seen. In 2020, it was pushed to October due to COVID-19; in the following year, the event took place in June. In 2022, the retailer had events in both July and October.

Amazon Prime Day 2026 will kick off on June 23rd and will last through June 26th. That’s four whole days of sales, deals, and discounts for Prime members. Some of those deals may also be available to non-Prime members, but there’s no guarantee. If you want to ensure you’ll have full access, sign up for a free 30-day trial of Prime ahead of the event.