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Ecology (Environment, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Ecology (Environment, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $9.99, median 232 reviews, average rating 4.6 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 23/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $3.99 – $12.49 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.6 |
| New releases (90 days) | 3% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Only 3% of its best sellers are under 90 days old, fewer than in 88% of Kindle eBooks categories: established titles hold the list.
- Its median reviews are 48% of the parent category Environment (486), one of the easier corners under it.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $3.99 to $12.49, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 Ecology best sellers
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Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth
by Curt Stager
- List rank#1
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.2
- Reviews81
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- List rank#2
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews23,680
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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#3
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews18
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The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth – A Popular Science and Natural History Study of Botany
by Zoë Schlanger
- List rank#4
- Price$12.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews1,870
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1491 (Second Edition): New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
- List rank#5
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews6,894
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The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples
by Tim Flannery
- List rank#6
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews199
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Bogland: The Secret World That Defies Death and Protects Life
by Merritt R. Turetsky
- List rank#7
- Price$9.40
- Rating4.3
- Reviews13
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The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything: How Carbon Dioxide Made Our World – A Natural History of Climate and the Future of Life
- List rank#8
- Price$7.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews78
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Is a River Alive?
- List rank#9
- Price$9.50
- Rating4.6
- Reviews744
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Erosion: Essays of Undoing
by Terry Tempest Williams
- List rank#10
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews250
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FAQ
Is Ecology a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 23/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 232 reviews and sells for $9.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Ecology?
The median best seller has 232 reviews, and 28% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Ecology best sellers cost?
The median price is $9.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $3.99 and $12.49.
Can new books break into Ecology?
3% 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.