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Basketball (Children's eBooks › Sports & Outdoors, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Basketball (Children's eBooks › Sports & Outdoors, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $6.29, median 124 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 21/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $3.99 – $8.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 9% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 38% of the parent category Sports & Outdoors (324), one of the easier corners under it.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $3.99 to $8.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 Basketball best sellers
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Big Shot (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #16): A hilariously hopeless season of sports fails and underdog dreams from the #1 international bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series (Book 16)
by Jeff Kinney
- List rank#1
- Price$7.56
- Rating4.8
- Reviews31,311
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The Crossover: A Newbery Award Winner—A Slam-Dunk Sports Book for Boys and Girls Ages 8-12 (The Crossover Series 1)
- List rank#2
- Price$10.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews6,149
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A Taste for Victory (Jake Maddox Graphic Novels)
by Jake Maddox
- List rank#3
- Price$6.60
- Rating4.8
- Reviews13
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Operation Trick Shot (Dude Perfect + Panda Book 1)
by Dude Perfect
- List rank#4
- Price$10.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews120
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Basketball: Math on the Court (Math in Sports)
by Tom Robinson
- List rank#5
- Price$17.07
- Rating3.0
- Reviews3
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Kimi the BALLerina
by Korey Watari
- List rank#6
- Price$2.49
- Rating4.5
- Reviews270
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Game Time, Mallory!
by Laurie Friedman
- List rank#7
- Price$6.64
- Rating4.6
- Reviews131
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EXTRAordinary! A Little EXTRA to Reach BIG Dreams
by Caitlin Clark
- List rank#8
- Price$6.99
- Reviews-
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I Am Lebron James (I Am #12)
by Ms. Grace Norwich
- List rank#9
- Price$3.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews137
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Pippa Park Raises Her Game
by Erin Yun
- List rank#10
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews1,517
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FAQ
Is Basketball a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 21/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 124 reviews and sells for $6.29.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Basketball?
The median best seller has 124 reviews, and 44% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Basketball best sellers cost?
The median price is $6.29; half of the best sellers are priced between $3.99 and $8.99.
Can new books break into Basketball?
9% 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.