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Computer Science (Computers & Technology, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data

Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Computer Science (Computers & Technology, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $9.99, median 188 reviews, average rating 4.6 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 37/100 (highly competitive).

37Opportunity / 100
$9.99Median price
188Median reviews
Price range (middle 50%)$3.99 – $14.99
Average rating4.6
New releases (90 days)29%
Books on the list100
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What stands out

  • 29% of its best sellers came out in the last 90 days, more than in 94% of Kindle eBooks categories: readers here keep buying new titles.
  • Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $3.99 to $14.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.

Top 10 Computer Science best sellers

  1. The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data book cover by David Spiegelhalter

    The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data

    by David Spiegelhalter

    • List rank#1
    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews4,165

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  2. The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect book cover by Judea Pearl

    The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

    by Judea Pearl

    • List rank#2
    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews2,485

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  3. The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence book cover by Kevin Roose

    The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence

    by Kevin Roose

    • List rank#3
    • Price$16.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews177

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  4. Co-Existence: The Next Phase of AI book cover by Ethan Mollick

    Co-Existence: The Next Phase of AI

    by Ethan Mollick

    • List rank#4
    • Price$16.99
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews39

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  5. Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity book cover by Daron Acemoglu

    Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

    by Daron Acemoglu

    • List rank#5
    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews944

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  6. The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip book cover by Stephen Witt

    The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip

    by Stephen Witt

    • List rank#6
    • Price$14.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews2,090

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  7. A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age book cover by Jimmy Soni

    A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age

    by Jimmy Soni

    • List rank#7
    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews909

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  8. The ChatGPT Millionaire: Making Money Online has never been this EASY (How to make money w book cover by Neil Dagger

    The ChatGPT Millionaire: Making Money Online has never been this EASY (How to make money with AI)

    by Neil Dagger

    • List rank#8
    • Price$9.99
    • Rating4.1
    • Reviews4,830

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  9. AI Agents Made Simple: A Decision Guide to Building AI Agents That Work (Super AI Engineer book cover by Nir Diamant

    AI Agents Made Simple: A Decision Guide to Building AI Agents That Work (Super AI Engineering Series)

    by Nir Diamant

    • List rank#9
    • Price$9.99
    • Rating5.0
    • Reviews4

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  10. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI book cover by Ethan Mollick

    Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

    by Ethan Mollick

    • List rank#10
    • Price$14.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews4,314

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Subcategories

Same niche in Books: Computer Science

FAQ

Is Computer Science a good niche for Amazon KDP?

Its KDPTop opportunity score is 37/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 188 reviews and sells for $9.99.

How many reviews do you need to rank in Computer Science?

The median best seller has 188 reviews, and 43% of them have fewer than 100.

What do Computer Science best sellers cost?

The median price is $9.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $3.99 and $14.99.

Can new books break into Computer Science?

29% 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.