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Acoustics & Sound (Physics, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Acoustics & Sound (Physics, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $9.99, median 44 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 19/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $8.75 – $19.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 5% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 6% of the parent category Physics (682), one of the easier corners under it.
- The same niche in Books scores 34, 15 points higher than here; worth checking both.
- Only 5% of its best sellers are under 90 days old, fewer than in 76% of Kindle eBooks categories: established titles hold the list.
Top 10 Acoustics & Sound best sellers
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I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine
- List rank#1
- Price$9.50
- Rating4.5
- Reviews335
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The God Notes: How Sound Creates the World
- List rank#2
- Price$14.99
- Rating4.9
- Reviews13
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The Mixing Engineer's Handbook 6th Edition
- List rank#3
- Price$19.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews58
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
- List rank#4
- Price$8.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews3,085
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The Recording Engineer's Handbook 5th Edition
- List rank#5
- Price$19.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews132
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The EQ and Compression Formula: Learn the step by step way to use EQ and Compression together (The Audio Engineer's Framework Book 1)
by Nathan Nyquist
- List rank#6
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews754
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The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature
- List rank#7
- Price$8.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews254
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The Mixing Engineer's Answer Book: 50 Essential Questions About Mixing . . . Answered
- List rank#8
- Price$12.99
- Rating4.0
- Reviews2
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Producer Handbook | 100 Song Blueprints for Music Producers: 10 Genres | Synthwave, Techno, Trance, House, IDM, Dubstep, IDM, Electro-House, Ambient, Downtempo
by Aaron Klingbeil
- List rank#9
- Price$16.50
- Rating3.9
- Reviews20
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How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond
by John Powell
- List rank#10
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews525
Same niche in Books: Acoustics & Sound
FAQ
Is Acoustics & Sound a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 19/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 44 reviews and sells for $9.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Acoustics & Sound?
The median best seller has 44 reviews, and 65% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Acoustics & Sound best sellers cost?
The median price is $9.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $8.75 and $19.99.
Can new books break into Acoustics & Sound?
5% of the current best sellers were released in the last 90 days.
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.