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Automation: Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Automation, updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $9.99, median 22 reviews, average rating 4.4 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 26/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $6.45 – $15.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.4 |
| New releases (90 days) | 17% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- 17% of its best sellers came out in the last 90 days, more than in 81% of Kindle eBooks categories: readers here keep buying new titles.
- Its review barrier is lower than in 71% of Kindle eBooks categories: the median best seller has only 22 reviews, so new books can chart with few.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $6.45 to $15.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 Automation best sellers
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The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence
by Kevin Roose
- List rank#1
- Price$16.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews177
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Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
by Brian Merchant
- List rank#2
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews293
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Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
- List rank#3
- Price$14.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews4,314
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AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order — A Look at the American and Chinese AI Race
by Kai-Fu Lee
- List rank#4
- Price$15.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews3,957
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Industrial Electrical Schematics for Beginners: Learn to Read Ladder Diagrams, Motor Control Circuits, Electrical Symbols, Wiring Diagrams, Control Panels, ... Real Industrial Drawings with step-by...
- List rank#5
- Price$7.99
- Rating4.2
- Reviews28
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The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—and How the World Lost Its Mind
by Dan Davies
- List rank#6
- Price$13.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews516
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The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking
by Shannon Vallor
- List rank#7
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.1
- Reviews103
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We Are Not Machines: The Fight for the Future of Work
by Sarah O’Connor
- List rank#8
- Price$22.83
- Rating4.6
- Reviews72
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Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
by Cade Metz
- List rank#9
- Price$14.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews861
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Building the Agentic Software Factory: Scaling reliable AI coding practices from individual developers to teams
by Alex Merced
- List rank#10
- Price$36.33
- Rating5.0
- Reviews1
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FAQ
Is Automation a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 26/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 22 reviews and sells for $9.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Automation?
The median best seller has 22 reviews, and 72% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Automation best sellers cost?
The median price is $9.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $6.45 and $15.99.
Can new books break into Automation?
17% 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.