Amazon Prime is a paid video on demand subscription service offered by Amazon. In April 2018, Amazon reported Prime had more than 100 million subscribers. Students and anyone else who has an email address with an academic domain (e.g., .edu, .ac.uk) can get Prime Student privileges, including discounts on Prime membership. In 2005, Amazon announced the creation of Amazon Prime, a membership offering free two-day shipping within the contiguous United States on all eligible purchases for a flat annual fee of $79 (equivalent to $99 in 2017), as well as discounted one-day shipping rates.[5] Amazon launched the program in Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom in 2007; in France (as "Amazon Premium") in 2008, in Italy in 2011, in Canada in 2013, in India in July 2016 and in Mexico in March 2017.