📚Readwise Launches Readwise Books, Taking Aim at Goodreads and Kindle

Your reading app just got a Goodreads competitor

Readwise just shipped Readwise Books, an e-book store app built to take on Goodreads. The company sells no e-readers. Instead, it bets that a reading community and detailed stats can win people over on their own. If you already track highlights or read a lot, this is the part to care about. The app tracks reading sessions even when you read through Kindle's browser-based Cloud Reader, and you can upload any DRM-free EPUB. It also reads books aloud with text-to-speech, and it exposes a public API and an MCP server, which means you can pipe your reading data into your own tools. The catalog has millions of e-books from the Big Five and other publishers, launching in the U.S. first. Print books and some audiobooks are also in the mix. Amazon's Kindle store holds about 83% of the market, so Readwise is aiming for the smaller crowd that wants better tracking. The app stays free, but some AI features will move behind a paywall later. Right now it is beta and requires an invite unless you already pay for Readwise. Its older apps cost $7.99 per month each or $9.99 for both.