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Alphabet (Words, Language & Grammar, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Alphabet (Words, Language & Grammar, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $9.52, median 148 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 17/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $4.99 – $9.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 1% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Only 1% of its best sellers are under 90 days old, fewer than in 97% of Kindle eBooks categories: established titles hold the list.
- Its median reviews are 22% of the parent category Words, Language & Grammar (678), one of the easier corners under it.
Top 10 Alphabet best sellers
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American Sign Language for Beginners: Learn Signing Essentials in 30 Days
by Rochelle Barlow
- List rank#1
- Price$11.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews4,578
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A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
by Judith Flanders
- List rank#2
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews228
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Peanut Butter and Jellyfishes: A Very Silly Alphabet Book (Millbrook Picture Books)
by Brian P. Cleary
- List rank#3
- Price$8.69
- Rating4.4
- Reviews22
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Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
by Nicholas Ostler
- List rank#4
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews692
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Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present
by Johanna Drucker
- List rank#5
- Price$3.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews19
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Remembering the Kanji: A Complete Course on How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Japanese Characters
by James W. Heisig
- List rank#6
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews2,193
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Encyclopedia of World Writing Systems: Alphabets, Abjads, Abugidas, and Syllabaries of All Languages Living and Dead (Linguistics Book 12)
- List rank#7
- Price$4.99
- Rating4.0
- Reviews111
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Japanese Kanji for JLPT N5: Master the Japanese Language Proficiency Test N5
- List rank#8
- Price$4.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews136
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100 Words Every 4th Grader Should Know
by Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries
- List rank#9
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews107
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
by Margalit Fox
- List rank#10
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews989
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FAQ
Is Alphabet a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 17/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 148 reviews and sells for $9.52.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Alphabet?
The median best seller has 148 reviews, and 40% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Alphabet best sellers cost?
The median price is $9.52; half of the best sellers are priced between $4.99 and $9.99.
Can new books break into Alphabet?
1% 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.