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History (Business, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for History (Business, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $11.49, median 102 reviews, average rating 4.4 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 21/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $7.99 – $15.25 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.4 |
| New releases (90 days) | 5% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- At $11.49 its median price beats 92% of Kindle eBooks categories, leaving more margin per copy.
- Its median reviews are 47% of the parent category Business (218), one of the easier corners under it.
- Only 5% of its best sellers are under 90 days old, fewer than in 76% of Kindle eBooks categories: established titles hold the list.
Top 10 History best sellers
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Elon Musk
- List rank#1
- Price$14.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews23,917
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Steve Jobs
- List rank#2
- Price$16.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews26,941
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The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
by Richard W. Hamming
- List rank#3
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews1,322
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The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West
by Alexander C. Karp
- List rank#4
- Price$12.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews1,208
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The 2-Hour Job Search, Third Edition: Using Technology to Get the Right Job Faster (The Job Search Collection)
by Steve Dalton
- List rank#5
- Price$12.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews233
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Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
by Joseph Menn
- List rank#7
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews618
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The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society—A Profound Examination of AI, Cybernetics, and the Human-Machine Relationship, Anticipating the Dilemmas of Modern Technology and Neuroscience
by Norbert Wiener
- List rank#8
- Price$7.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews298
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Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
by Kim Zetter
- List rank#9
- Price$13.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews2,448
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The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality
- List rank#10
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews600
FAQ
Is History a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 21/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 102 reviews and sells for $11.49.
How many reviews do you need to rank in History?
The median best seller has 102 reviews, and 49% of them have fewer than 100.
What do History best sellers cost?
The median price is $11.49; half of the best sellers are priced between $7.99 and $15.25.
Can new books break into History?
5% 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.