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Sports & Outdoors (Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Sports & Outdoors (Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $4.99, median 2,573 reviews, average rating 4.3 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 15/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $4.99 – $5.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.3 |
| New releases (90 days) | 24% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its review barrier is higher than in 95% of Kindle eBooks categories: the median best seller has 2,573 reviews, so new books need time to build up.
- 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.
- The same niche in Books scores 29, 14 points higher than here; worth checking both.
Top 10 Sports & Outdoors best sellers
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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party
- List rank#1
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews8,442
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Cross Check (D.C. Stars Book 6)
- List rank#2
- Price$3.99
- Rating4.1
- Reviews10,781
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Offside Rules: A brother's rival hockey romance book (Rookie Hawkeyes Series 7)
by Kenna King
- List rank#3
- Price$5.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews651
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Power Play: A Grumpy Sunshine Marriage of Convenience Romance (D.C. Stars Book 2)
- List rank#4
- Price$3.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews39,544
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Fair Game (The Rules of the Rink Book 1)
- List rank#5
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.1
- Reviews1,721
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Sin Bin (D.C. Stars Book 5)
- List rank#6
- Price$3.99
- Rating4.2
- Reviews24,364
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Pucking Revenge : A Fake dating, friends to lovers, hockey romance (The Revenge Games Book 2)
- List rank#7
- Price$5.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews8,857
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Bluffed by the Offense (Tennessee Thunder Football Book 2)
- List rank#8
- Price$5.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews72
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Ice Mechanic: A Small-Town Hockey Romance (Lucky Strikers Hockey Romance)
by Lia Bevans
- List rank#9
- Price$6.99
- Rating4.0
- Reviews5,599
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Brutal Game: A dark college hockey romance (Kings of Reina University Book 1)
by Jo Brenner
- List rank#10
- Price$5.99
- Rating4.1
- Reviews4,957
Subcategories
Same niche in Books: Sports & Outdoors
FAQ
Is Sports & Outdoors a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 15/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 2,573 reviews and sells for $4.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Sports & Outdoors?
The median best seller has 2,573 reviews, and 8% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Sports & Outdoors best sellers cost?
The median price is $4.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $4.99 and $5.99.
Can new books break into Sports & Outdoors?
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.