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Italian (Literature & Fiction › Literary Criticism › Regions › European, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Italian (Literature & Fiction › Literary Criticism › Regions › European, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $9.99, median 16 reviews, average rating 4.4 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 25/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $5.17 – $15.10 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.4 |
| New releases (90 days) | 2% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 8% of the parent category European (204), one of the easier corners under it.
- Only 2% of its best sellers are under 90 days old, fewer than in 93% of Kindle eBooks categories: established titles hold the list.
- Its review barrier is lower than in 76% of Kindle eBooks categories: the median best seller has only 16 reviews, so new books can chart with few.
Top 10 Italian best sellers
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The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso)
- List rank#1
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews3,738
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Pasolini Requiem: Second Edition
by Barth David Schwartz
- List rank#2
- Price$3.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews22
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Six Memos for the Next Millennium
by Italo Calvino
- List rank#3
- Price$9.49
- Rating4.5
- Reviews245
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El Príncipe de Maquiavelo en Español - Edición Completa: La Nueva Traducción Moderna (Traducida y Anotada) (Spanish Edition)
- List rank#4
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews504
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The Prince Machiavelli - Complete Edition: The New Modern English Translation (Translated and Annotated)
- List rank#5
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews274
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The Book of the Courtier
by conte Castiglione, Baldassarre
- List rank#6
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews166
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The Written World and the Unwritten World: Collected Non-Fiction
by Italo Calvino
- List rank#7
- Price-
- Rating4.5
- Reviews46
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How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem
by Rod Dreher
- List rank#8
- Price$14.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews527
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The Divine Comedy: inferno, purgatorio, paradiso
- List rank#9
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews421
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El príncipe (Con notas): La edición del poder sin máscara: texto íntegro en español, con notas históricas, ecos críticos, glosario y apuntes del traductor (Spanish Edition)
- List rank#10
- Price$0.99
- Rating5.0
- Reviews1
FAQ
Is Italian a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 25/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 16 reviews and sells for $9.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Italian?
The median best seller has 16 reviews, and 83% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Italian best sellers cost?
The median price is $9.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $5.17 and $15.10.
Can new books break into Italian?
2% 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.