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Purchasing & Buying (Processes & Infrastructure, Books): Amazon KDP category data

Amazon Books Best Sellers data for Purchasing & Buying (Processes & Infrastructure, Books), updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $18.91, median 9 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 36/100 (highly competitive).

36Opportunity / 100
$18.91Median price
9Median reviews
Price range (middle 50%)$9.99 – $38.70
Average rating4.5
New releases (90 days)13%
Books on the list100
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What stands out

  • Its median reviews are 0% of the parent category Processes & Infrastructure (3,118), one of the easier corners under it.
  • Its review barrier is lower than in 84% of Books categories: the median best seller has only 9 reviews, so new books can chart with few.
  • Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $9.99 to $38.70, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.

Top 10 Purchasing & Buying best sellers

  1. Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game book cover by Walker Deibel

    Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game

    by Walker Deibel

    • List rank#1
    • Price$13.89
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews2,361

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  2. Still in the Game: Losing a Business, a Marriage, and a Million, and Why I Kept Playing book cover by Miguel Graf

    Still in the Game: Losing a Business, a Marriage, and a Million, and Why I Kept Playing

    by Miguel Graf

    • List rank#2
    • Price$0.99
    • Rating5.0
    • Reviews7

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  3. The Insider’s Guide to Business Credit Using an EIN Only: Get Tradelines, Credit Cards, an book cover by Alyssa Garner

    The Insider’s Guide to Business Credit Using an EIN Only: Get Tradelines, Credit Cards, and Loans for Your Business with No Personal Guarantee

    by Alyssa Garner

    • List rank#3
    • Price$8.37
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews189

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  4. Let's Get Real or Let's Not Play: Transforming the Buyer/Seller Relationship book cover by Mahan Khalsa

    Let's Get Real or Let's Not Play: Transforming the Buyer/Seller Relationship

    by Mahan Khalsa

    • List rank#4
    • Price$22.81
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews601

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  5. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In book cover by William L. Ury

    Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

    by William L. Ury

    • List rank#5
    • Price$18.67
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews11,636

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  6. Order Book For Small Business: Keep Track of Your Customer Orders. order forms for small b book cover by order log

    Order Book For Small Business: Keep Track of Your Customer Orders. order forms for small business. Sales Order Forms for Online Businesses and Retail ... Online Businesses and Retail Store. 8"X10" in

    by order log

    • List rank#6
    • Price$6.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews85

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  7. 2 Year Monthly Planner- 2027-2028: With Holidays and Motivational Quotes (From January 202 book cover by Oriel  H Frazier

    2 Year Monthly Planner- 2027-2028: With Holidays and Motivational Quotes (From January 2027 to December 2028)

    by Oriel H Frazier

    • List rank#7
    • Price$8.99
    • Rating4.1
    • Reviews10

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  8. Amazon Return Pallets for Beginners: How to Buy Liquidation Mystery Boxes, Warehouse Retur book cover by Trey Phillips

    Amazon Return Pallets for Beginners: How to Buy Liquidation Mystery Boxes, Warehouse Returns, and Unclaimed Items to Resell for Profit

    by Trey Phillips

    • List rank#8
    • Price$0.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews25

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  9. The Tech Contracts Handbook: Cloud Computing Agreements, Software Licenses, and Other IT C book cover by David W. Tollen

    The Tech Contracts Handbook: Cloud Computing Agreements, Software Licenses, and Other IT Contracts for Lawyers and Businesspeople, Third Edition

    by David W. Tollen

    • List rank#9
    • Price$39.93
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews183

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  10. The Messy Marketplace: Selling Your Business in a World of Imperfect Buyers book cover by Brent Beshore

    The Messy Marketplace: Selling Your Business in a World of Imperfect Buyers

    by Brent Beshore

    • List rank#10
    • Price$16.73
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews138

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FAQ

Is Purchasing & Buying a good niche for Amazon KDP?

Its KDPTop opportunity score is 36/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 9 reviews and sells for $18.91.

How many reviews do you need to rank in Purchasing & Buying?

The median best seller has 9 reviews, and 75% of them have fewer than 100.

What do Purchasing & Buying best sellers cost?

The median price is $18.91; half of the best sellers are priced between $9.99 and $38.70.

Can new books break into Purchasing & Buying?

13% 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.