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Basketball (Sports & Outdoors, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Basketball (Sports & Outdoors, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $8.99, median 130 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 27/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $4.14 – $13.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 11% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 5% of the parent category Sports & Outdoors (2,573), one of the easier corners under it.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $4.14 to $13.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 Basketball best sellers
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His Reckless Freshman : A College Sports Romance (Nolan U Basketball Book 1)
by Katy Archer
- List rank#1
- Price$5.99
- Rating4.0
- Reviews285
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The Mamba Mentality: How I Play
by Kobe Bryant
- List rank#2
- Price$20.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews30,753
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The Breaks of the Game
- List rank#3
- Price$11.80
- Rating4.5
- Reviews896
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David Halberstam on Sports: Summer of '49, October 1964, The Amateurs, Playing for Keeps
- List rank#4
- Price$3.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews52
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Meet the Boys: A College Sports Romance (Nolan U Basketball)
by Katy Archer
- List rank#5
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.0
- Reviews159
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Expensive Basketball
by Shea Serrano
- List rank#6
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews168
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Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable (Tim Grover Winning Series)
by Tim S. Grover
- List rank#7
- Price$13.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews13,587
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How to Be Better At Basketball in 21 days: The Ultimate Guide to Drastically Improving Your Basketball Shooting, Passing and Dribbling Skills (Basketball)
by James Wilson
- List rank#8
- Price$3.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews783
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Three Point Heat
by B.J. Twigg
- List rank#9
- Price$0.99
- Rating3.9
- Reviews78
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The Blue Team: A Novel about Faith and Basketball (The Thomas Conner Series Book 1)
by Peter Young
- List rank#10
- Price$7.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews143
Subcategories
Same niche in Books: Basketball
FAQ
Is Basketball a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 27/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 130 reviews and sells for $8.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Basketball?
The median best seller has 130 reviews, and 47% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Basketball best sellers cost?
The median price is $8.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $4.14 and $13.99.
Can new books break into Basketball?
11% 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.