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Skills (Business & Money, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data

Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Skills (Business & Money, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $9.99, median 1,964 reviews, average rating 4.6 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 26/100 (highly competitive).

26Opportunity / 100
$9.99Median price
1,964Median reviews
Price range (middle 50%)$3.99 – $13.46
Average rating4.6
New releases (90 days)15%
Books on the list100
StoreKindle eBooks

What stands out

  • Its review barrier is higher than in 93% of Kindle eBooks categories: the median best seller has 1,964 reviews, so new books need time to build up.
  • 15% of its best sellers came out in the last 90 days, more than in 76% of Kindle eBooks categories: readers here keep buying new titles.
  • Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $3.99 to $13.46, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.

Top 10 Skills best sellers

  1. Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot book cover by Matt Abrahams

    Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot

    by Matt Abrahams

    • List rank#1
    • Price$2.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews1,555

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  2. How to Work a Room: The Ultimate Guide to Making Lasting Connections—In Person and Online book cover by Susan RoAne

    How to Work a Room: The Ultimate Guide to Making Lasting Connections—In Person and Online

    by Susan RoAne

    • List rank#2
    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.2
    • Reviews295

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  3. Dopamine Detox : A Short Guide to Remove Distractions and Get Your Brain to Do Hard Things book cover by thibaut  meurisse

    Dopamine Detox : A Short Guide to Remove Distractions and Get Your Brain to Do Hard Things (Productivity Series Book 1)

    by thibaut meurisse

    • List rank#3
    • Price$2.99
    • Rating4.2
    • Reviews15,877

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  4. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals book cover by Oliver Burkeman

    Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

    by Oliver Burkeman

    • List rank#4
    • Price$11.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews14,635

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  5. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It—Unlock Your Persuas book cover by Chris Voss

    Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It—Unlock Your Persuasion Potential in Professional and Personal Life

    by Chris Voss

    • List rank#5
    • Price$22.49
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews51,950

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  6. Conversation: How to Connect with Anyone & Make Every Interaction Count book cover by Vanessa Van Edwards

    Conversation: How to Connect with Anyone & Make Every Interaction Count

    by Vanessa Van Edwards

    • List rank#6
    • Price$16.99
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews69

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  7. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection book cover by Charles Duhigg

    Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

    by Charles Duhigg

    • List rank#7
    • Price$4.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews3,229

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  8. 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done book cover by Peter Bregman

    18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done

    by Peter Bregman

    • List rank#8
    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews961

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  9. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) book cover by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

    Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

    by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

    • List rank#9
    • Price$12.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews7,620

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  10. The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business book cover by Erin Meyer

    The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

    by Erin Meyer

    • List rank#10
    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews6,262

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Subcategories

Same niche in Books: Skills

FAQ

Is Skills a good niche for Amazon KDP?

Its KDPTop opportunity score is 26/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 1,964 reviews and sells for $9.99.

How many reviews do you need to rank in Skills?

The median best seller has 1,964 reviews, and 21% of them have fewer than 100.

What do Skills best sellers cost?

The median price is $9.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $3.99 and $13.46.

Can new books break into Skills?

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.