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System Administration (Operating Systems, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for System Administration (Operating Systems, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $9.99, median 3 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 27/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $5.99 – $30.90 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 26% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its review barrier is lower than in 92% of Kindle eBooks categories: the median best seller has only 3 reviews, so new books can chart with few.
- 26% of its best sellers came out in the last 90 days, more than in 92% of Kindle eBooks categories: readers here keep buying new titles.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $5.99 to $30.90, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 System Administration best sellers
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Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems
by Betsy Beyer
- List rank#1
- Price$64.71
- Rating5.0
- Reviews1
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Docker Deep Dive: Zero to Docker in a single book
by Nigel Poulton
- List rank#2
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews1,073
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The Complete Homelab for Beginners: Build Your Own Private Server with Proxmox, Linux, Docker, Pi-hole, Jellyfin, Home Assistant, NAS Storage, VPNs, and ... (Computer Programming Made Easy Book 20)
- List rank#3
- Price$3.99
- Rating1.6
- Reviews3
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Getting Started With Your First Homelab: A Beginners Guide To Building, Running And Learning IT From Home
by Kevin Villarreal
- List rank#4
- Price$9.99
- Rating5.0
- Reviews3
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Qubes OS for Beginners: The Most Secure Linux System
by Dennis Lee
- List rank#5
- Price$8.99
- Reviews-
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The Complete Windows 11 User Guide
- List rank#6
- Price$5.99
- Reviews-
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Linux Foundations: Master the Linux Command Line And system Administration (Modern Cloud & AI Engineering Series Book 1)
by Eslam Wahba
- List rank#7
- Price$0.99
- Reviews-
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Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Study Guide: In-Depth Guidance and Practice
by Benjamin Muschko
- List rank#8
- Price$59.99
- Rating5.0
- Reviews6
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Mastering Ansible From Fundamentals to Infrastructure Automation: A Complete Professional DevOps and Automation Training Guide (Modern DevOps Engineering Series Book 12)
by Dypue Dilane Junior WANKAM
- List rank#9
- Price$4.99
- Reviews-
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Linux Mint 22.3 System Administration Handbook: Beginner to Advanced Guide to User Management, Services, Networking, Security & System Maintenance (The Practical Linux Mint Mastery Series Book 4)
by Frank Maik
- List rank#10
- Price$7.99
- Reviews-
FAQ
Is System Administration a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 27/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 3 reviews and sells for $9.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in System Administration?
The median best seller has 3 reviews, and 90% of them have fewer than 100.
What do System Administration best sellers cost?
The median price is $9.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $5.99 and $30.90.
Can new books break into System Administration?
26% 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.