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Compiler Design: Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Books Best Sellers data for Compiler Design, updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $50.00, median 12 reviews, average rating 4.3 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 30/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $27.33 – $70.27 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.3 |
| New releases (90 days) | 9% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Books |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 4% of the parent category Programming Languages (297), one of the easier corners under it.
- At $50.00 its median price beats 96% of Books categories, leaving more margin per copy.
- Its review barrier is lower than in 80% of Books categories: the median best seller has only 12 reviews, so new books can chart with few.
Top 10 Compiler Design best sellers
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Crafting Interpreters
by Robert Nystrom
- List rank#1
- Price$38.35
- Rating4.8
- Reviews735
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
by Harold Abelson
- List rank#2
- Price$54.94
- Rating4.7
- Reviews741
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Writing a C Compiler: Build a Real Programming Language from Scratch
by Nora Sandler
- List rank#3
- Price$42.43
- Rating4.3
- Reviews78
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Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
by Alfred V. Aho
- List rank#4
- Price$70.77
- Rating4.6
- Reviews153
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Engineering a Compiler
by Keith D. Cooper
- List rank#5
- Price$84.56
- Rating4.5
- Reviews40
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C Programming in easy steps: Updated for the GNU Compiler version 6.3.0
by Mike McGrath
- List rank#6
- Price$9.17
- Rating4.7
- Reviews157
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LLVM Code Generation: A deep dive into compiler backend development
by Quentin Colombet
- List rank#7
- Price$34.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews29
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Putting the C in the C64: A Practical Guide To Programming the Commodore 64 with C and CC65 (The Commodore 64 Workshop)
by John McGinnis
- List rank#8
- Price$29.99
- Rating5.0
- Reviews1
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Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
by Alfred Aho
- List rank#9
- Price$155
- Rating4.4
- Reviews155
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Modern X86 Assembly Language Programming: Covers X86 64-bit, AVX, AVX2, and AVX-512
by Daniel Kusswurm
- List rank#10
- Price$49.90
- Rating4.8
- Reviews25
FAQ
Is Compiler Design a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 30/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 12 reviews and sells for $50.00.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Compiler Design?
The median best seller has 12 reviews, and 83% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Compiler Design best sellers cost?
The median price is $50.00; half of the best sellers are priced between $27.33 and $70.27.
Can new books break into Compiler Design?
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.