Readwise takes on Amazon’s Kindle and Goodreads with its new app for book lovers

Readwise has launched a new app, Readwise Books, which combines an ebook store, reading tracker, and AI features to challenge Amazon's Kindle and Goodreads ecosystem. The app offers detailed reading stats, including words read, pace, depth, immersion, and sessions, and has a store with millions of ebooks from major publishers and others. The app aims to create a community around reading, with tools for tracking purchased and uploaded ebooks, but does not sell its own e-readers. This move comes at a time when several new reading apps and book trackers are emerging to challenge Goodreads, but Readwise's app is the first to directly compete with Amazon's Kindle ebook store.