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Brian W Kernighan: Amazon KDP author data
Brian W Kernighan has 50 books on Amazon, 12 of them on a best-seller list in the last 30 days (best rank #1), mostly in APIs & Operating Environments, Unix, Operating Systems.
50Books on Amazon
12Listed in 30 days
4.4Average rating
| Median price | $38.34 |
|---|---|
| Price range (middle 50%) | $21.91 – $60.40 |
| Median reviews | 42 |
| Total reviews | 9,263 |
| New books (30 days) | 4 |
| Breakout books (30 days) | 2 |
What stands out
- Median price $38.34, 23% above the median of their main category, APIs & Operating Environments.
- 4 new books in the last 30 days, 2 of them broke into a Best Sellers list.
Brian W Kernighan's best-ranked books
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C Programming Language, 2nd Edition
by Brian W Kernighan
- Price$60.28
- Rating4.7
- Reviews4,479
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Unix Programming Environment (Prentice-Hall Software Series)
by Brian W Kernighan
- Price-
- Rating4.7
- Reviews182
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The Unix Programming Environment (Prentice-Hall Software Series)
by Brian W Kernighan
- Price$58.38
- Rating4.7
- Reviews182
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UNIX: A History and a Memoir
by Brian W Kernighan
- Price$9.95
- Rating4.7
- Reviews792
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UNIX: A History and a Memoir
by Brian W Kernighan
- Price$18.95
- Rating4.7
- Reviews792
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Shifts: Nine Big Ideas That Revolutionized Computing
by Brian W Kernighan
- Price$40
- Reviews-
- Published2027-01
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Shifts: Nine Big Ideas That Revolutionized Computing
by Brian W Kernighan
- Price$28.99
- Reviews-
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Millions, Billions, Zillions: Defending Yourself in a World of Too Many Numbers
by Brian W Kernighan
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews54
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Understanding the Digital World: What You Need to Know about Computers, the Internet, Privacy, and Security, Second Edition
by Brian W Kernighan
- Price$23.04
- Rating4.7
- Reviews51
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Understanding the Digital World: What You Need to Know about Computers, the Internet, Privacy, and Security, Second Edition
by Brian W Kernighan
- Price$21.89
- Rating4.7
- Reviews51
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About this data
Data comes from KDPTop's daily crawl of Amazon's public Best Sellers pages; medians use the latest list. The opportunity score (0–100, higher is easier to enter) combines the review barrier, the share of low-review books, list turnover, new-release share and price.