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Simon Garfield: Amazon KDP author data

Simon Garfield has 19 books on Amazon, 19 of them on a best-seller list in the last 30 days (best rank #4), mostly in Lexicography, Design History & Criticism, Typography.

19Books on Amazon
19Listed in 30 days
4.3Average rating
Median price$13.04
Price range (middle 50%)$11.02 – $15.38
Median reviews89
Total reviews3,319
New books (30 days)3
Breakout books (30 days)2

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What stands out

  • 100% of the catalog made a best-seller list in the last 30 days: the whole backlist sells, not one hit.
  • Median price $13.04, 16% below the median of their main category, Lexicography.
  • 3 new books in the last 30 days, 2 of them broke into a Best Sellers list.

Simon Garfield's best-ranked books

  1. All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia – From Ancie book cover by Simon Garfield

    All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia – From Ancient Greece to Wikipedia: Revealing Britannica, Einstein, and the Human Quest

    by Simon Garfield

    • Price$10.98
    • Rating4.3
    • Reviews89

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  2. The Pen: A Human History book cover by Simon Garfield

    The Pen: A Human History

    by Simon Garfield

    • Price$30
    • Rating4.1
    • Reviews7

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  3. The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS book cover by Simon Garfield

    The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS

    by Simon Garfield

    • Price$10.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews43

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  4. All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia – From Ancie book cover by Simon Garfield

    All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia – From Ancient Greece to Wikipedia: Revealing Britannica, Einstein, and the Human Quest

    by Simon Garfield

    • Price$16.99
    • Rating4.3
    • Reviews89

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  5. On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks book cover by Simon Garfield

    On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks

    by Simon Garfield

    • Price$15.78
    • Rating4.3
    • Reviews306

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  6. To the Letter: A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing book cover by Simon Garfield

    To the Letter: A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing

    by Simon Garfield

    • Price$6.99
    • Rating4.3
    • Reviews109

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  7. To the Letter: A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing book cover by Simon Garfield

    To the Letter: A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing

    by Simon Garfield

    • Price$17.38
    • Rating4.3
    • Reviews109

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  8. The Pen: A Human History book cover by Simon Garfield

    The Pen: A Human History

    by Simon Garfield

    • Price$13.99
    • Rating4.1
    • Reviews7

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  9. Just My Type: A Book About Fonts book cover by Simon Garfield

    Just My Type: A Book About Fonts

    by Simon Garfield

    • Price$11.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews825

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  10. All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia – From Ancie book cover by Simon Garfield

    All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia – From Ancient Greece to Wikipedia: Revealing Britannica, Einstein, and the Human Quest

    by Simon Garfield

    • Price$14.05
    • Rating4.3
    • Reviews89

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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.