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Photo Essays (Photography, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Photo Essays (Photography, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 1, 2026: median price $6.99, median 22 reviews, average rating 4.3 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 22/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $2.99 – $11.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.3 |
| New releases (90 days) | 4% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 15% of the parent category Photography (141), one of the easier corners under it.
- The same niche in Books scores 33, 11 points higher than here; worth checking both.
- 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 Photo Essays best sellers
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Portrait of Southern Sharecroppers in the Great Depression
by Walker Evans
- List rank#1
- Price$11.99
- Rating4.1
- Reviews404
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Photography Book: How To Shoot Photo Challenges
by Mikael Sundberg
- List rank#2
- Price$8.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews175
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Photo Essay Deja vu Of Nude Girls 1: sexy nuded women anime
by Gabriel Bowen
- List rank#3
- Price$3.99
- Rating2.0
- Reviews3
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13 Words: Reflections from the mountain path
by Brad Did
- List rank#4
- Price$9.99
- Rating5.0
- Reviews1
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FRUiTS No222: Harajuku street fashion FRUiTS Magazine (Japanese Edition)
by Shoichi Aoki
- List rank#5
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.0
- Reviews21
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Indecent Light Part 1: Fine Art Nude Portraits
by Valerius Vance
- List rank#6
- Price$2.99
- Reviews-
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A Seventh Man: A Book of Images and Words about the Experience of Migrant Workers in Europe (The Essential John Berger 5)
by John Berger
- List rank#7
- Price-
- Rating4.6
- Reviews44
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Maika Kobayashi JUICY 223pics (Aimist Books) (Japanese Edition)
by Maika Kobayashi
- List rank#8
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.2
- Reviews37
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Japanese Girl HIKARU in OKINAWA!!!〜ヒカルの沖縄旅行記〜: Japanese Girl 's holiday!
by HIKARU n OTOTO
- List rank#9
- Price$7.99
- Rating2.0
- Reviews1
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Resurrection: Photobook of Miyuki Kato (Miyako Publishing) (Japanese Edition)
by MIYUKI KATO
- List rank#10
- Price$3.98
- Rating3.8
- Reviews18
Same niche in Books: Photojournalism & Essays
FAQ
Is Photo Essays a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 22/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 22 reviews and sells for $6.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Photo Essays?
The median best seller has 22 reviews, and 76% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Photo Essays best sellers cost?
The median price is $6.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $2.99 and $11.99.
Can new books break into Photo Essays?
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.