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Programming (Computers & Technology, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data

Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Programming (Computers & Technology, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $9.99, median 60 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 37/100 (highly competitive).

37Opportunity / 100
$9.99Median price
60Median reviews
Price range (middle 50%)$3.99 – $23.41
Average rating4.5
New releases (90 days)19%
Books on the list100
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What stands out

  • Its median reviews are 25% of the parent category Computers & Technology (238), one of the easier corners under it.
  • 19% of its best sellers came out in the last 90 days, more than in 85% of Kindle eBooks categories: readers here keep buying new titles.
  • Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $3.99 to $23.41, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.

Top 10 Programming best sellers

  1. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software book cover by Charles Petzold

    Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

    by Charles Petzold

    • List rank#1
    • Price$3.99
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews1,085

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  2. Pragmatic Programmer, The: Your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition book cover by David Thomas

    Pragmatic Programmer, The: Your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition

    by David Thomas

    • List rank#2
    • Price$3.99
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews3,670

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  3. AI Agents Made Simple: A Decision Guide to Building AI Agents That Work (Super AI Engineer book cover by Nir Diamant

    AI Agents Made Simple: A Decision Guide to Building AI Agents That Work (Super AI Engineering Series)

    by Nir Diamant

    • List rank#3
    • Price$9.99
    • Rating5.0
    • Reviews4

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  4. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Robert C. Martin Series) book cover by Robert Martin

    Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Robert C. Martin Series)

    by Robert Martin

    • List rank#4
    • Price$3.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews61

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  5. Claude Anthology: The 4-in-1 Path From First Prompt to Recurring Revenue | Prompt Engineer book cover by Ryan Lee

    Claude Anthology: The 4-in-1 Path From First Prompt to Recurring Revenue | Prompt Engineering, Claude Code, AI Agents, and Money & Business

    by Ryan Lee

    • List rank#5
    • Price$1
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews46

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  6. Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design (Robert C. Martin book cover by Robert C.  Martin

    Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design (Robert C. Martin Series)

    by Robert C. Martin

    • List rank#6
    • Price$3.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews4,068

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  7. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers—Strai book cover by Ben Horowitz

    The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers—Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship

    by Ben Horowitz

    • List rank#7
    • Price$15.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews15,991

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  8. A Philosophy of Software Design, 2nd Edition book cover by John K.  Ousterhout

    A Philosophy of Software Design, 2nd Edition

    by John K. Ousterhout

    • List rank#8
    • Price$9.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews2,889

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  9. The Claude AI Bible: The Complete and Easy-to-Follow Guide to Mastering Claude – Build Pra book cover by Thomas R. Caldwell

    The Claude AI Bible: The Complete and Easy-to-Follow Guide to Mastering Claude – Build Practical Workflows, Automate Repetitive Tasks, and 10x Your Productivity

    by Thomas R. Caldwell

    • List rank#9
    • Price$23.90
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews347

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  10. Agentic Coding with Claude Code (5-in-1): A Practical Developer’s Handbook for Building, A book cover by Connor Blumond

    Agentic Coding with Claude Code (5-in-1): A Practical Developer’s Handbook for Building, Automating, and Scaling Software Projects with Claude Code and AI-Powered Agentic Workflows

    by Connor Blumond

    • List rank#10
    • Price$0.51
    • Rating5.0
    • Reviews1

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Subcategories

Same niche in Books: Programming

FAQ

Is Programming a good niche for Amazon KDP?

Its KDPTop opportunity score is 37/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 60 reviews and sells for $9.99.

How many reviews do you need to rank in Programming?

The median best seller has 60 reviews, and 57% of them have fewer than 100.

What do Programming best sellers cost?

The median price is $9.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $3.99 and $23.41.

Can new books break into Programming?

19% 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.