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Essays & Writings: Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Essays & Writings, updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $9.99, median 157 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 21/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $4.99 – $11.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| 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 49% of the parent category Baseball (321), one of the easier corners under it.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $4.99 to $11.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 Essays & Writings best sellers
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Unhittable: How Technology, Mavericks, and Innovators Engineered Baseball's New Era of Pitching Dominance
by Rob Friedman
- List rank#1
- Price$2.99
- Rating3.8
- Reviews69
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It's All About the Players: What I've Learned from Baseball's Best
by Peter Gammons
- List rank#2
- Price$15.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews58
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The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports
by Jeff Passan
- List rank#3
- Price$3.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews1,414
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The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds
- List rank#4
- Price$12.15
- Rating4.6
- Reviews562
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Living on the Black: Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season to Remember
- List rank#5
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews184
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Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues (RosettaBooks Sports Classics Book 1)
by Jim Bouton
- List rank#6
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews3,026
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Love Me, Hate Me: Barry Bonds and the Making of an Antihero – A Nuanced Biography of Baseball's Celebrated, Controversial Icon
- List rank#7
- Price$7.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews264
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The Last of His Kind: Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness
by Andy McCullough
- List rank#8
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews290
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Nine Innings: The Anatomy of a Baseball Game
by Daniel Okrent
- List rank#9
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews170
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Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments
- List rank#10
- Price$5.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews1,402
FAQ
Is Essays & Writings a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 21/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 157 reviews and sells for $9.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Essays & Writings?
The median best seller has 157 reviews, and 41% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Essays & Writings best sellers cost?
The median price is $9.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $4.99 and $11.99.
Can new books break into Essays & Writings?
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.