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Ecology (Biological Sciences, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data

Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Ecology (Biological Sciences, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $8.99, median 109 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 22/100 (highly competitive).

22Opportunity / 100
$8.99Median price
109Median reviews
Price range (middle 50%)$5.92 – $14.24
Average rating4.5
New releases (90 days)11%
Books on the list100
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What stands out

  • Its median reviews are 10% of the parent category Biological Sciences (1,130), one of the easier corners under it.
  • Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $5.92 to $14.24, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.

Top 10 Ecology best sellers

  1. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants book cover by Robin Wall Kimmerer

    Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

    by Robin Wall Kimmerer

    • List rank#1
    • Price$9.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews23,680

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  2. Scientific American September 2026 book cover by Scientific American

    Scientific American September 2026

    by Scientific American

    • List rank#2
    • Price$6.99
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews13

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  3. Adapt: How Humans Are Tapping into Nature's Secrets to Design and Build a Better Future book cover by Amina Khan

    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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  4. Scientific American October 2026 book cover by Scientific American

    Scientific American October 2026

    by Scientific American

    • List rank#4
    • Price$6.99
    • Rating4.2
    • Reviews7

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  5. Scientific American June 2026 book cover by Scientific American

    Scientific American June 2026

    by Scientific American

    • List rank#5
    • Price$6.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews42

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  6. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of book cover by Zoë Schlanger

    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#6
    • Price$12.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews1,870

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  7. Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet book cover by Tim Flannery

    Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet

    by Tim Flannery

    • List rank#7
    • Price$2.99
    • Rating4.2
    • Reviews228

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  8. Scientific American November 2026 book cover by Scientific American

    Scientific American November 2026

    by Scientific American

    • List rank#8
    • Price$6.99
    • Reviews-

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  9. The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples book cover by Tim Flannery

    The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples

    by Tim Flannery

    • List rank#9
    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews199

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  10. The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything: How Carbon Dioxide Made Our World – A Natural book cover by Peter Brannen

    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

    by Peter Brannen

    • List rank#10
    • Price$7.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews78

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Same niche in Books: Ecology

FAQ

Is Ecology a good niche for Amazon KDP?

Its KDPTop opportunity score is 22/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 109 reviews and sells for $8.99.

How many reviews do you need to rank in Ecology?

The median best seller has 109 reviews, and 48% of them have fewer than 100.

What do Ecology best sellers cost?

The median price is $8.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $5.92 and $14.24.

Can new books break into Ecology?

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.