Amazon rebrands Kindle Unlimited as Kindle Plus and adds AI‑narrated audiobooks

Amazon has renamed its Kindle Unlimited subscription to Kindle Plus, keeping the core offering of unlimited access to a curated selection of ebooks, comics and magazines from the Kindle catalog for $11.99 a month. The service will continue to let users toggle between reading and listening, as many titles already include companion audiobooks that resume exactly where the reader left off. In addition, Kindle Plus will broaden its audio library with “virtual voice” audiobooks narrated by artificial‑intelligence voices, according to ZDNet. The change reflects a broader trend of “plus‑ification” among subscription platforms. For the full story, see The Verge.