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Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited is now Kindle+, and the 2 big changes include AI audiobooks

ZDNet·Oct 22, 2026 · 10:55 AM CT
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Amazon has officially renamed its Kindle Unlimited subscription Kindle+, ZDNET reports. It still costs $12 a month for unlimited reading from an eligible Kindle catalog.

The bigger change is audio. Kindle+ is expanding its audiobook category, and authors can include more eligible audiobooks, including titles narrated by AI.

Those AI narrations come from Virtual Voice, which Amazon offers free to authors in its Kindle Direct Publishing program. Amazon pitches it as a way for readers to keep going with a book by listening after they put their Kindle down.

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