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Biotechnology (Biological Sciences, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Biotechnology (Biological Sciences, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $9.99, median 39 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 24/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $5.99 – $14.57 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 14% |
| Books on the list | 99 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 3% of the parent category Biological Sciences (1,130), one of the easier corners under it.
- 14% of its best sellers came out in the last 90 days, more than in 75% of Kindle eBooks categories: readers here keep buying new titles.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $5.99 to $14.57, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 Biotechnology best sellers
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Scientific American September 2026
- List rank#1
- Price$6.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews13
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Adapt: How Humans Are Tapping into Nature's Secrets to Design and Build a Better Future
by Amina Khan
- List rank#2
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews18
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Scientific American October 2026
- List rank#3
- Price$6.99
- Rating4.2
- Reviews7
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Scientific American June 2026
- List rank#4
- Price$6.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews42
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The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
by Ray Kurzweil
- List rank#5
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews1,734
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Scientific American November 2026
- List rank#6
- Price$6.99
- Reviews-
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Projections: The New Science of Human Emotion
by Karl Deisseroth
- List rank#7
- Price$13.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews403
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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
by Max Tegmark
- List rank#8
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews6,304
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Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined—and Redefined—Nature
by Beth Shapiro
- List rank#9
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews129
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Omnicide
by Jacqueline Druga
- List rank#10
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews819
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FAQ
Is Biotechnology a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 24/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 39 reviews and sells for $9.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Biotechnology?
The median best seller has 39 reviews, and 61% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Biotechnology best sellers cost?
The median price is $9.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $5.99 and $14.57.
Can new books break into Biotechnology?
14% 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.