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Maya: Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Maya, updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $4.99, median 48 reviews, average rating 4.4 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 17/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $2.99 – $9.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.4 |
| New releases (90 days) | 6% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 7% of the parent category Ancient Civilizations (665), one of the easier corners under it.
- The same niche in Books scores 32, 15 points higher than here; worth checking both.
- At $4.99 its median price is below 91% of Kindle eBooks categories, so it is a volume game.
Top 10 Maya best sellers
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Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization
- List rank#1
- Price$12.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews5,108
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition
- List rank#2
- Price$12.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews3,776
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The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya (Unearthing the Past)
by David Stuart
- List rank#3
- Price$19.25
- Rating4.5
- Reviews101
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Where They Burn Books, They Also Burn People (Hispanic American Heritage Stories)
by Marcos Antonio Hernandez
- List rank#4
- Price$7.49
- Rating4.5
- Reviews481
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Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Maya
by Allen J. Christenson
- List rank#5
- Price$21.95
- Rating4.5
- Reviews196
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What You Should Know About Ancient History: Major Great Civilizations of Antiquity (Essential Knowledge Library)
by Taylor Quinn
- List rank#6
- Price$8.99
- Rating4.2
- Reviews52
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Jungle of Stone: The Extraordinary Journey of John L. Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya
by William Carlsen
- List rank#7
- Price$11.49
- Rating4.6
- Reviews1,203
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When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History
by Matthew Restall
- List rank#8
- Price$3.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews300
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The Maya
by Michael D. Coe
- List rank#9
- Price$29.73
- Rating4.6
- Reviews426
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House of the Waterlily: A Novel of the Ancient Maya World
by Kelli Carmean
- List rank#10
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.0
- Reviews15
Same niche in Books: Mayan
FAQ
Is Maya a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 17/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 48 reviews and sells for $4.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Maya?
The median best seller has 48 reviews, and 67% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Maya best sellers cost?
The median price is $4.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $2.99 and $9.99.
Can new books break into Maya?
6% 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.