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Physics (Science & Math, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Physics (Science & Math, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $8.99, median 682 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 29/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $3.39 – $11.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 8% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its review barrier is higher than in 83% of Kindle eBooks categories: the median best seller has 682 reviews, so new books need time to build up.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $3.39 to $11.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 Physics best sellers
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
- List rank#1
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews1,017
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Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
by Brian Cox
- List rank#2
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews1,581
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The Physics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (DK Big Ideas)
by DK
- List rank#3
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews1,890
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Six Impossible Things: The Mystery of the Quantum World
by John Gribbin
- List rank#4
- Price$11.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews142
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Basic Machines and How They Work
by Naval Education
- List rank#5
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews1,055
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What Ultimately Is There?... And Other Foundational Questions
- List rank#6
- Price$9.95
- Reviews-
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Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean
by Matt Strassler
- List rank#7
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews436
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On the Equality of All Things: Lessons on Physics and Philosophy
- List rank#8
- Price$12.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews75
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Relativity: The Special And The General Theory
- List rank#9
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews5,802
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Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller
- List rank#10
- Price$16.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews6,548
Subcategories
Same niche in Books: Physics
FAQ
Is Physics a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 29/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 682 reviews and sells for $8.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Physics?
The median best seller has 682 reviews, and 25% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Physics best sellers cost?
The median price is $8.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $3.39 and $11.99.
Can new books break into Physics?
8% 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.