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Solaris: Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Books Best Sellers data for Solaris, updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $39.98, median 9 reviews, average rating 4.0 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 23/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $28 – $52.23 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.0 |
| New releases (90 days) | 0% |
| Books on the list | 85 |
| Store | Books |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 8% of the parent category Operating Systems (114), one of the easier corners under it.
- Only 0% of its best sellers are under 90 days old, fewer than in 99% of Books categories: established titles hold the list.
- At $39.98 its median price beats 94% of Books categories, leaving more margin per copy.
Top 10 Solaris best sellers
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Essential System Administration: Tools and Techniques for Linux and Unix Administration, 3rd Edition
by Æleen Frisch
- List rank#1
- Price$31.44
- Rating4.4
- Reviews83
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Hands-on Booting: Learn the Boot Process of Linux, Windows, and Unix
by Yogesh Babar
- List rank#2
- Price$22.80
- Rating4.3
- Reviews40
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Kerberos: The Definitive Guide
by Jason Garman
- List rank#3
- Price$22.34
- Rating4.2
- Reviews64
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Unix in a Nutshell, Fourth Edition
by Arnold Robbins
- List rank#4
- Price$20.09
- Rating4.5
- Reviews152
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UNIX: The Complete Reference, Second Edition
by Kenneth H. Rosen
- List rank#5
- Price$75.76
- Rating4.8
- Reviews17
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Solaris Internals: Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris Kernel Architecture
by Richard McDougall
- List rank#6
- Price$36.21
- Rating4.9
- Reviews28
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FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS (IT Mastery)
- List rank#7
- Price$21.16
- Rating4.6
- Reviews141
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FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS (IT Mastery)
- List rank#8
- Price$21.16
- Rating4.7
- Reviews65
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Shell Programming in Unix, Linux and OS X (Developer's Library)
by Stephen Kochan
- List rank#9
- Price$44.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews44
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Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
by W. Stevens
- List rank#10
- Price$53.59
- Rating4.7
- Reviews267
FAQ
Is Solaris a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 23/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 9 reviews and sells for $39.98.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Solaris?
The median best seller has 9 reviews, and 98% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Solaris best sellers cost?
The median price is $39.98; half of the best sellers are priced between $28 and $52.23.
Can new books break into Solaris?
0% 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.