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Tom Shachtman: Amazon KDP author data

Tom Shachtman has 5 books on Amazon, 5 of them on a best-seller list in the last 30 days (best rank #1), mostly in Thermodynamics, Law, Professionals & Academics.

5Books on Amazon
5Listed in 30 days
4.4Average rating
Median price$12.16
Price range (middle 50%)$9.99 – $12.29
Median reviews65
Total reviews5,055
New books (30 days)0
Breakout books (30 days)0

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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 $12.16, 71% below the median of their main category, Thermodynamics.

Tom Shachtman's best-ranked books

  1. Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI book cover by Tom Shachtman

    Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI

    by Tom Shachtman

    • Price$9.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews3,837
    • Published2015-05

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  2. Dead Center: Behind the Scenes at the World's Largest Medical Examiner's Office book cover by Tom Shachtman

    Dead Center: Behind the Scenes at the World's Largest Medical Examiner's Office

    by Tom Shachtman

    • Price$12.16
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews1,073
    • Published2009-10

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  3. Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold book cover by Tom Shachtman

    Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold

    by Tom Shachtman

    • Price$3.99
    • Rating4.3
    • Reviews65

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  4. Absolute Zero And The Conquest Of Cold: And the Conquest of Cold – An Acclaimed History of book cover by Tom Shachtman

    Absolute Zero And The Conquest Of Cold: And the Conquest of Cold – An Acclaimed History of Temperature Science that Revolutionized Civilization

    by Tom Shachtman

    • Price$12.29
    • Rating4.3
    • Reviews64

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  5. Airlift to America: How Barack Obama, Sr., John F. Kennedy, Tom Mboya, and 800 East Africa book cover by Tom Shachtman

    Airlift to America: How Barack Obama, Sr., John F. Kennedy, Tom Mboya, and 800 East African Students Changed Their World and Ours

    by Tom Shachtman

    • Price$29.86
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews14

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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.