If you are eligible for a Prime Student membership, Amazon is currently running a promotion, sponsored by Sprint, that gets you a Six Month Free Trial. If you don’t cancel it, it will convert to a Prime Student membership which is half the price of a regular Prime membership. A regular Prime membership is currently $100 per year.

A $100 plastic Amazon plastic gift card (inside a greeting card format) is included for FREE for a limited time with the Oculus Rift VR Headset for the same price of $599 with free shipping. This is a limited time offer (expiration unknown to me).

And now something fun! If you are an Amazon Prime member, Cyber Monday has more utilitarian benefits for you as well. Amazon launched a new trio of sample boxes. You buy the sample box at the listed price, and a week later you receive a credit in the same amount to spend on a future purchase of similar items (from a predetermined list; the shopping cart will tell you whether an item qualifies). Of camera & photo interest, these can be handy if you are a roar warrior or if you want more supplies at the studio and use as needed.

• Buy $12 Beauty Box and receive $12 credit to spend on any combination of these 160+ items
• Buy $20 Luxury Beauty Box and receive $20 credit to spend on any combination of these 6640+ items
• Buy $10 Men’s Beauty Box and receive $10 credit to spend on any combination of these 130+ items
• one of each different sample box per Prime member; they ship with one speed, you can’t select 2-day shipping

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If you like to read a lot of online content via RSS and want a power user tool, and want to support the independent developers, Feedly PRO is having a Black Friday sale as well, you can get your first year of PRO for $45 instead of $65. After the first year, the annual fee is $65. You can also switch to month-to-month or downgrade to the free tier (losing some of the power user features), or cancel it.

Signing up is easy. Create an account, verify your email, and then it will take you to your Feedly page. From there, you will see a Black Friday offer at the top right corner. Click on that, enter credit card info, and that’s it, $45 later you are upgraded to PRO for one year.

Feedly finally has its own login system, you can sign up using an email address and password like any other website. Or login using 3rd-party services (eg Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc).

PS: I do not know when exactly the Black Friday promotion expires.

PS2: back when I was doing the “news cycle” non-stop camera news style blog, Feedly was an invaluable tool. I don’t think I would be able to do it without something like this. Which is why I am mentioning this in case some of you need a tool like this to keep up with different topics.