Great Courses To Launch Lecture Video Streaming Service

Great Courses is launching a video streaming service, The Great Courses Plus, featuring videos of professors lecturing on nearly 5,000 subjects, the company said Wednesday. Commercial launch is expected to come this fall, with the company -- which specializes in lifelong learning content across multiple platforms -- also planning to make apps available for Amazon, Apple, Google and Roku products by then, it said. Subscribers will have unlimited access to the online video distributor's content for a monthly fee of $29.99-$49.99, it said.