When people ask me what Daniel does at work, and I say he works for Amazon Prime, several people don’t know what that group does. So, here’s the run-down. If you sign up for Amazon Prime, you get-
1. Unlimited FREE Two-Day Shipping on millions of Amazon.com Items (pretty much anything that is available for Super Saver Shipping)
2. Overnight Shipping upgrades for only $3.99 per item
3. Shopping with no minimum order size
4. Ability to share benefits with up to 4 household members
To join Prime, there is an annual fee of $79, but right now, Amazon is offering a month long free trial to eligible members. We really like being Prime members, and if you decide to check it out, feel free to hunt for some bugs for Daniel to fix. 
He does a lot of the behind the scenes work to make sure that the sign-up process is working, and that Prime promotions are displaying properly.
On another note, Prime is one reason that Amazon recently decided to only sell PODs that are printed through BookSurge. I never believed that move was monopolistic, and after discussing it with Daniel, I can see that the move makes business sense. In order for a book to be eligible for Prime, Amazon has to either stock it, or print it themselves. They’re not going to stock a POD for the same reason bookstores won’t stock PODs. If they have someone else print a POD, they will first have to ship it to Amazon, who can then send it to the customer. That process will take longer than 2 days. So, because Amazon wants to expand how many products are eligible for Prime, they made this policy to only sell PODs printed through BookSurge.
Edit: It has come to my attention that Amazon will actually stock a small amount (5) of PODs. If you want to hear directly from Amazon all the reasons they have for making the changes to POD, read this letter.
Just to make things totally clear, I (Daniel Lemmon an employee of Amazon.com) do not believe that Prime is *the* reason for the BookSurge move. I believe it’s *a* reason, as exemplified in that Amazon letter (I asked her to update the blog with that link, originally not wanting to leave a comment myself as it might have seemed conflict-of-interest-y). My wife may have her own opinions, but they do not reflect either mine or Amazon in general nor do they represent any information not available to those who do not work within the company.
Thanks for pointing that out, honey. I’ll change above to make it more apparent that it’s not *the* reason that Amazon pushed BookSurge with PODs.
For those of you with Amazon Prime memberships, here is a useful website to search for Prime items:
http://www.amazanian.com
Interesting site. Thanks for the tip.