Amazon Prime Day has been occuring in July for the past five years, but the company has moved the event in 2020 to September. Amazon has sent out emails to all of the resellers and vendor and are now allowing unlimited shipments of non-essential goods to warehouses.
Amazon has been struggling for months to respond to a rush of customer orders during the public health crisis and had to institute many new safety protocols and shipping restrictions to be able to continue delivering food and basic needs. The world’s largest online store is only now starting to bring itself back to some semblance of regular operations and faster shipping times.
Last year Prime Day was actually two days of sales, July 15th and 16th — was the largest shopping event in the company’s history. Amazon also said that the two-day Prime Day 2019 saw the “two biggest days ever for member signups.” It remains to be seen if this years event will only be one day, or two.
If you are looking to buy a new Kindle e-reader and can wait a couple of months, all of their products are normally at rock bottom prices, sometimes better than Black Friday.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.