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Aeronautics & Astronautics (Astronomy & Space Science, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data

Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Aeronautics & Astronautics (Astronomy & Space Science, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $11.99, median 315 reviews, average rating 4.6 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 20/100 (highly competitive).

20Opportunity / 100
$11.99Median price
315Median reviews
Price range (middle 50%)$5.99 – $16.14
Average rating4.6
New releases (90 days)7%
Books on the list100
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What stands out

  • At $11.99 its median price beats 93% of Kindle eBooks categories, leaving more margin per copy.
  • The same niche in Books scores 32, 12 points higher than here; worth checking both.
  • Its review barrier is higher than in 74% of Kindle eBooks categories: the median best seller has 315 reviews, so new books need time to build up.

Top 10 Aeronautics & Astronautics best sellers

  1. Saving Columbia: Lost Opportunity to Save Seven Astronauts book cover by Marshall H.  Kaplan

    Saving Columbia: Lost Opportunity to Save Seven Astronauts

    by Marshall H. Kaplan

    • List rank#1
    • Price$9.99
    • Rating3.5
    • Reviews2

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  2. Rocket Dreams: Musk, Bezos, and the Inside Story of the New, Trillion-Dollar Space Race book cover by Christian Davenport

    Rocket Dreams: Musk, Bezos, and the Inside Story of the New, Trillion-Dollar Space Race

    by Christian Davenport

    • List rank#2
    • Price$13.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews143

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  3. The Impossible Factory: The Remarkable True Story of Kelly Johnson and the Lockheed Skunk  book cover by Josh Dean

    The Impossible Factory: The Remarkable True Story of Kelly Johnson and the Lockheed Skunk Works, America's Innovation Machine

    by Josh Dean

    • List rank#3
    • Price$15.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews99

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  4. Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge: FAA-H-8083-25C book cover by Federal Aviation Administration Staff

    Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge: FAA-H-8083-25C

    by Federal Aviation Administration Staff

    • List rank#4
    • Price$16.99
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews700

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  5. The Complete Book of the SR-71 Blackbird: The Illustrated Profile of Every Aircraft, Crew, book cover by Richard H. Graham

    The Complete Book of the SR-71 Blackbird: The Illustrated Profile of Every Aircraft, Crew, and Breakthrough of the World's Fastest Stealth Jet

    by Richard H. Graham

    • List rank#5
    • Price$23.99
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews1,039

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  6. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space book cover by Carl Sagan

    Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

    by Carl Sagan

    • List rank#6
    • Price$8.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews2,846

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  7. The Wright Brothers book cover by David McCullough

    The Wright Brothers

    by David McCullough

    • List rank#7
    • Price$14.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews21,450

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  8. Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew book cover by Michael D. Leinbach

    Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew

    by Michael D. Leinbach

    • List rank#8
    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews2,263

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  9. The Right Stuff book cover by Tom Wolfe

    The Right Stuff

    by Tom Wolfe

    • List rank#9
    • Price$12.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews5,937

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  10. Imminent: Written by the Former Head of the Pentagon Program Investigating UAPs book cover by Luis Elizondo

    Imminent: Written by the Former Head of the Pentagon Program Investigating UAPs

    by Luis Elizondo

    • List rank#10
    • Price$20.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews5,760

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FAQ

Is Aeronautics & Astronautics a good niche for Amazon KDP?

Its KDPTop opportunity score is 20/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 315 reviews and sells for $11.99.

How many reviews do you need to rank in Aeronautics & Astronautics?

The median best seller has 315 reviews, and 33% of them have fewer than 100.

What do Aeronautics & Astronautics best sellers cost?

The median price is $11.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $5.99 and $16.14.

Can new books break into Aeronautics & Astronautics?

7% 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.