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Plant Design: Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Books Best Sellers data for Plant Design, updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $80.15, median 3 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 26/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $35.59 – $148 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 15% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Books |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 5% of the parent category Chemical (57), one of the easier corners under it.
- Its review barrier is lower than in 94% of Books categories: the median best seller has only 3 reviews, so new books can chart with few.
- At $80.15 its median price beats 99% of Books categories, leaving more margin per copy.
Top 10 Plant Design best sellers
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The Art and Science of Natural Dyes: Principles, Experiments, and Results
by Joy Boutrup
- List rank#1
- Price$25.49
- Rating4.8
- Reviews283
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Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook, 9th Edition
by Don W. Green
- List rank#2
- Price$152
- Rating4.8
- Reviews297
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Analysis, Synthesis, and Design of Chemical Processes (International Series in the Physical and Chemical Engineering Sciences)
by Richard Turton
- List rank#3
- Price$180
- Rating4.3
- Reviews74
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What Went Wrong?: Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters and How They Could Have Been Avoided
by Trevor Kletz
- List rank#4
- Price$78.89
- Rating4.8
- Reviews20
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Chemical and Process Plant Commissioning Handbook: A Practical Guide to Plant System and Equipment Installation and Commissioning
by Martin Killcross
- List rank#5
- Price$170
- Rating4.8
- Reviews7
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Refractory Gold Processing: A Practitioners Handbook
by Tony Escorcio
- List rank#6
- Price$19.95
- Reviews-
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PPI PE Chemical Practice –– Comprehensive Practice for the NCEES Chemical PE Exam
by Michael R. Lindeburg PE
- List rank#7
- Price$100
- Rating3.9
- Reviews25
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Chemical Engineering Design: Principles, Practice and Economics of Plant and Process Design
by Gavin Towler
- List rank#8
- Price-
- Rating4.8
- Reviews70
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LITHIUM PROCESSING AND PRODUCTION: A Practitioner's Handbook
by Tony Escorcio
- List rank#9
- Price$22.50
- Reviews-
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Industrial Water Desalination and Membrane Plant Engineering: Designing Reverse Osmosis Infrastructure Through Membrane Optimization, Energy Recovery, and Brine Management Systems
by Dorian Havel
- List rank#10
- Price$25.04
- Reviews-
FAQ
Is Plant Design a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 26/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 3 reviews and sells for $80.15.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Plant Design?
The median best seller has 3 reviews, and 98% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Plant Design best sellers cost?
The median price is $80.15; half of the best sellers are priced between $35.59 and $148.
Can new books break into Plant Design?
15% 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.