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Amazon renames Kindle Unlimited to Kindle+ and expands audiobooks
Amazon has renamed Kindle Unlimited to Kindle+, its subscription for books, comics and magazines.
The service is available through the Kindle app and Amazon's Kindle devices.
The monthly price remains $12, and subscribers can still borrow up to 20 titles at a time.
The main change is a larger audiobook library, with thousands more titles, while reading histories, bookmarks, notes and saved titles carry over.
Authors who self-publish through Kindle Direct Publishing can add audiobooks, including some made with Amazon's free Virtual Voice AI narration service.
AI narration may give readers more listening choices, but it could also reduce work for professional narrators.
Kindle+ is live now, and the core reading service remains largely unchanged.
Amazon has renamed its Kindle Unlimited subscription service Kindle+ and expanded its audiobook selection.
The service costs $12 per month, and subscribers can still borrow up to 20 titles at a time.
The expanded audiobook library can include titles narrated by AI through Amazon’s Virtual Voice service.
Authors in the Kindle Direct Publishing program can choose to add eligible audiobooks, including AI-narrated titles.
The reading experience and subscribers’ saved titles, bookmarks, notes and reading history remain unchanged.
- Who
- Amazon and subscribers to its Kindle Unlimited service.
- What
- Amazon renamed the service Kindle+ and expanded its audiobook selection, including AI-narrated titles.
- When
- October 22, 2026. The articles report the rebrand on that date.
- Where
- The Kindle service, available through the Kindle app and Kindle devices.
- Why
- Amazon says it is expanding audiobook options and allowing authors to include more eligible titles.
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Amazon announced the rebranding of Kindle Unlimited as Kindle+ and the expanded audiobook selection.
Kindle+ is live, with the same $12 monthly price and a limit of 20 borrowed titles at a time.
- New name
- Kindle+
- Monthly price
- $12
- Borrowing limit
- 20 titles at a time
- Audiobook expansion
- Thousands more audiobooks, according to Amazon
- AI narration service
- Virtual Voice
- Author program
- Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP)
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