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Letters & Correspondence: Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Letters & Correspondence, updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $4.99, median 181 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 26/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $2.74 – $11.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 4% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 31% of the parent category Essays & Correspondence (586), one of the easier corners under it.
- At $4.99 its median price is below 91% of Kindle eBooks categories, so it is a volume game.
- Only 4% of its best sellers are under 90 days old, fewer than in 82% of Kindle eBooks categories: established titles hold the list.
Top 10 Letters & Correspondence best sellers
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Letters to a Young Poet (Penguin Classics)
- List rank#1
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews874
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Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters
- List rank#2
- Price$4.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews253
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Meditations: Adapted for the Contemporary Reader (The Stoic Classics Collection Book 1)
- List rank#3
- Price$12.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews2,933
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Berlin Diary
- List rank#4
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews2,439
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Letters to Camondo
- List rank#5
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews943
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Seneca's Letters from a Stoic
- List rank#6
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews4,176
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On Cats: Funny, Moving Essays and Poems About Felines, Beauty, and Love by Charles Bukowski
- List rank#7
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews728
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The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
- List rank#8
- Price$6.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews13,066
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The Color of Rain: A Kansas Courtship in Letters
by John W. Feist
- List rank#9
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.1
- Reviews142
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A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020)
- List rank#10
- Price$11.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews4,148
FAQ
Is Letters & Correspondence a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 26/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 181 reviews and sells for $4.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Letters & Correspondence?
The median best seller has 181 reviews, and 43% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Letters & Correspondence best sellers cost?
The median price is $4.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $2.74 and $11.99.
Can new books break into Letters & Correspondence?
4% 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.