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Natural Resource Extraction (Industries, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Natural Resource Extraction (Industries, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $9.99, median 25 reviews, average rating 4.4 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 19/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $5.99 – $15.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.4 |
| New releases (90 days) | 11% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 4% of the parent category Industries (644), one of the easier corners under it.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $5.99 to $15.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 Natural Resource Extraction best sellers
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Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
by Thea Riofrancos
- List rank#1
- Price$15.38
- Rating4.3
- Reviews23
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The World for Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources
by Javier Blas
- List rank#2
- Price$8.13
- Rating4.6
- Reviews4,312
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The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
by James Green
- List rank#3
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews355
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Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America
by Darren Dochuk
- List rank#4
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews54
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The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters
by Gregory Zuckerman
- List rank#5
- Price$11.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews1,247
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Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
by Steve Coll
- List rank#6
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews868
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Zama Zama: Inside the Illicit Mining Underworld
by Graham Coetzer
- List rank#7
- Price$14.75
- Rating4.2
- Reviews31
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The Green and the Black: The Complete Story of the Shale Revolution, the Fight over Fracking, and the Future of Energy
by Gary Sernovitz
- List rank#8
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews101
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The Rush: America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1853
- List rank#9
- Price$14.42
- Rating4.3
- Reviews80
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Sea Change: Unlikely Allies and a Success Story of Oceanic Proportions
by James Workman
- List rank#10
- Price$3.99
- Rating4.9
- Reviews16
FAQ
Is Natural Resource Extraction a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 19/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 25 reviews and sells for $9.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Natural Resource Extraction?
The median best seller has 25 reviews, and 75% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Natural Resource Extraction best sellers cost?
The median price is $9.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $5.99 and $15.99.
Can new books break into Natural Resource Extraction?
11% 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.