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Engineering (Engineering & Transportation, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Engineering (Engineering & Transportation, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $9.99, median 366 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 32/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $4.99 – $13.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 17% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- 17% of its best sellers came out in the last 90 days, more than in 81% of Kindle eBooks categories: readers here keep buying new titles.
- Its review barrier is higher than in 77% of Kindle eBooks categories: the median best seller has 366 reviews, so new books need time to build up.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $4.99 to $13.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 Engineering best sellers
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Prepare Your Home for a Sudden Grid-Down Situation: Take Self-Reliance to the Next Level with Proven Methods and Strategies to Survive a Grid-Down Crisis ... Modern Family to Prepare for Any Crisis)
by Ted Riley
- List rank#1
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews1,460
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The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence
by Kevin Roose
- List rank#2
- Price$16.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews177
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Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
- List rank#3
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews944
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Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
by Brian Merchant
- List rank#4
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews293
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A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
by Jimmy Soni
- List rank#5
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews909
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Saving Columbia: Lost Opportunity to Save Seven Astronauts
by Marshall H. Kaplan
- List rank#6
- Price$9.99
- Rating3.5
- Reviews2
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A Summer Bright and Terrible: Winston Churchill, Lord Dowding, Radar, and the Impossible Triumph of the Battle of Britain
by David Fisher
- List rank#7
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews72
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Basic Machines and How They Work
by Naval Education
- List rank#8
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews1,055
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The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence
- List rank#9
- Price$16.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews1,478
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Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
- List rank#10
- Price$14.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews4,314
Subcategories
Same niche in Books: Engineering
FAQ
Is Engineering a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 32/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 366 reviews and sells for $9.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Engineering?
The median best seller has 366 reviews, and 32% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Engineering best sellers cost?
The median price is $9.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $4.99 and $13.99.
Can new books break into Engineering?
17% 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.