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Software Development (Software Design, Testing & Engineering, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Software Development (Software Design, Testing & Engineering, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $10.74, median 14 reviews, average rating 4.6 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 36/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $4.99 – $24.12 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.6 |
| New releases (90 days) | 24% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- 24% of its best sellers came out in the last 90 days, more than in 91% of Kindle eBooks categories: readers here keep buying new titles.
- At $10.74 its median price beats 90% of Kindle eBooks categories, leaving more margin per copy.
- Its review barrier is lower than in 77% of Kindle eBooks categories: the median best seller has only 14 reviews, so new books can chart with few.
Top 10 Software Development best sellers
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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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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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Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Robert C. Martin Series)
by Robert Martin
- List rank#3
- Price$3.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews61
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AI Agents Made Simple: A Decision Guide to Building AI Agents That Work (Super AI Engineering Series)
by Nir Diamant
- List rank#4
- Price$9.99
- Rating5.0
- Reviews4
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Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design (Robert C. Martin Series)
by Robert C. Martin
- List rank#5
- Price$3.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews4,068
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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#6
- Price$15.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews15,991
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A Philosophy of Software Design, 2nd Edition
by John K. Ousterhout
- List rank#7
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews2,889
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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#8
- Price$0.51
- Rating5.0
- Reviews1
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Evals for AI Engineers: Systematically Measuring and Improving AI Applications
by Shreya Shankar
- List rank#9
- Price$67.99
- Reviews-
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Building Claude Skills: Turn repeatable work into reusable Claude Skills
by Pietro Montaldo
- List rank#10
- Price$22.55
- Rating4.8
- Reviews17
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FAQ
Is Software Development a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 36/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 14 reviews and sells for $10.74.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Software Development?
The median best seller has 14 reviews, and 66% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Software Development best sellers cost?
The median price is $10.74; half of the best sellers are priced between $4.99 and $24.12.
Can new books break into Software Development?
24% 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.