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Amazon has rebranded its Kindle Unlimited subscription service as Kindle+, notifying subscribers via email. The service keeps its $12 monthly price and 20-title borrowing limit, and carries over existing reading history, bookmarks and notes, while expanding its audiobook catalog, partly by letting self-published Kindle Direct Publishing authors add their own audiobooks, including AI-generated 'virtual voice' narrations.
Amazon has renamed its Kindle Unlimited subscription to Kindle+, keeping the $12-a-month unlimited reading model while expanding its audiobook offerings. The update lets authors in the Kindle Direct Publishing program add AI-narrated audiobooks to Kindle+ for free through Amazon's Virtual Voice tool, letting listeners continue a book's narration after they stop reading.
Amazon has renamed its Kindle Unlimited subscription to Kindle Plus, keeping the $11.99 monthly price and 20-title borrowing limit. The service now adds thousands of AI-narrated 'virtual voice' audiobooks in the US at no extra cost, alongside human-narrated titles from Audible's ACX marketplace. Authors publishing through Kindle Direct Publishing can opt in to include audiobooks, with new KDP Select titles automatically eligible for AI narration.