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Scientific American: Amazon KDP author data
Scientific American has 20 books on Amazon, 19 of them on a best-seller list in the last 30 days (best rank #1), mostly in Thermodynamics, Electron Microscopes & Microscopy, Experiments & Projects.
20Books on Amazon
19Listed in 30 days
4.4Average rating
| Median price | $6.99 |
|---|---|
| Price range (middle 50%) | $6.99 – $11.42 |
| Median reviews | 6 |
| Total reviews | 123 |
| New books (30 days) | 3 |
| Breakout books (30 days) | 3 |
What stands out
- 95% of the catalog made a best-seller list in the last 30 days: the whole backlist sells, not one hit.
- Median price $6.99, 30% below the median of their main category, Thermodynamics.
- 3 new books in the last 30 days, 3 of them broke into a Best Sellers list.
Scientific American's best-ranked books
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Scientific American June 2026
by Scientific American
- Price$6.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews42
- Published2026-05
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Scientific American September 2026
by Scientific American
- Price$6.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews13
- Published2026-08
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Scientific American October 2026
by Scientific American
- Price$6.99
- Rating4.2
- Reviews7
- Published2026-09
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Scientific American July/August 2026
by Scientific American
- Price$6.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews8
- Published2026-06
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Scientific American November 2026
by Scientific American
- Price$6.99
- Reviews-
- Published2026-10
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Scientific American 14th April 2026
by Scientific American
- Price$6.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews11
- Published2026-04
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Scientific American May 2026
by Scientific American
- Price$6.99
- Rating4.0
- Reviews1
- Published2026-04
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Scientific American April 2026
by Scientific American
- Price$6.99
- Rating5.0
- Reviews3
- Published2026-03
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Scientific American 20th January 2026
by Scientific American
- Price$6.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews3
- Published2026-01
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Scientific American 21st October 2025
by Scientific American
- Price$6.99
- Reviews-
- Published2025-10
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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.