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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.
Uncovered.ink is a free website designed to help users discover books worth reading across any platform, not just Kindle. Rather than relying on cover art or store algorithms, the tool aims to surface books based on what readers are likely to actually enjoy.
A reader survey found that most Kindle owners are unwilling to pay for Amazon's new Page-Turn Cover accessory, which lets users flip pages via buttons on the cover. Respondents cited the cost of the add-on as the main reason for passing on it despite its added convenience.
The Xteink X4 Pro, a pocket-sized e-reader with a 4.26-inch, 800x480 E Ink touchscreen, is now available on Amazon for $84.15, a $25 discount and its lowest price yet. The device includes physical page-turn buttons, a touch-sensitive home button, an adjustable front light, and magnets for attaching to compatible phones, running Xteink's CrossPoint Reader software.
A developer documented a project called KindleCTL, in which an AI coding agent was used to jailbreak a 10th-generation Kindle Basic and install a custom photo slideshow app. Earlier attempts with other AI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and Anthropic's Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5, failed due to technical errors or built-in cybersecurity restrictions, but GPT-6 Astra succeeded in building the jailbreak and the app. The resulting app cycles through ten photos for four minutes each, accessible from the Kindle's library screen alongside books.
Amazon commits to at least four years of security updates for Kindle devices, but its Kindle Updates page shows some models, like the 2024 Paperwhite and first-gen Colorsoft, are slated for coverage through 2030. Earlier this year Amazon fully cut off devices as old as the 2007 original Kindle and other pre-2012 models from downloading, purchasing or borrowing new books, though previously downloaded titles remain readable.
Amazon's 12th-generation Kindle Aluminum introduces an aluminum body in Seaglass Green and Alpine Sky, alongside the existing plastic Kindle in black and Ube purple. The device is slightly shorter than the 2024 Kindle and has a flush screen design, but keeps the same 6-inch display and core reading system.
Users on Reddit report that Amazon's latest base-model Kindles, which feature a flush bezel design, show shadows or visible LED strips around the screen edges, especially in dark mode with brightness turned up. The issue reportedly affects both plastic and aluminum models across all color options. Good e-Reader reports Amazon has acknowledged a manufacturing issue may have caused defects in the current batch, though Amazon declined to give The Verge an on-the-record statement.
Amazon is reintroducing physical page-turn buttons for its Kindle lineup, but not built into the devices themselves. Instead, the feature arrives as an $80 add-on accessory compatible only with its pricier models, such as the Scribe and Colorsoft.
Amazon announced that its latest Alexa Tablets will now include full access to the Google Play store, expanding beyond the company's own app ecosystem. The new models, including the Alexa Tablet 12 Pro, 11, and 8, will be available in multiple countries starting mid-October. Previously, Amazon tablets only supported the Amazon Appstore, limiting app choices.