Readwise takes on Amazon’s Kindle and Goodreads with its new app for book lovers
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Readwise, the maker of popular reading-highlight tools, launched Readwise Books, a new app combining an ebook store, reading tracker, detailed reading statistics, and AI features, in a direct challenge to Amazon's Kindle and Goodreads ecosystem. The move targets Amazon's dominance in digital reading, where Kindle devices and the Goodreads social platform have long anchored the company's grip on book lovers. By bundling purchasing, tracking, and analytics in one product, Readwise is betting readers want more data-rich, portable alternatives to Amazon's walled garden. The company is best known for its Readwise and Readwise Reader apps, which sync highlights from ebooks and articles. Key things to watch: whether Readwise can secure publisher partnerships and ebook inventory to compete on selection, how Amazon responds to a rival courting its customer base, and whether readers will pay for features Amazon bundles cheaply or free.
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