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World (History, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for World (History, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $9.99, median 1,024 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 31/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $2.99 – $14.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 17% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its review barrier is higher than in 88% of Kindle eBooks categories: the median best seller has 1,024 reviews, so new books need time to build up.
- 17% of its best sellers came out in the last 90 days, more than in 81% of Kindle eBooks categories: readers here keep buying new titles.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $2.99 to $14.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 World best sellers
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History of the World Map by Map (DK History Map by Map)
by DK
- List rank#1
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews8,663
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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party
- List rank#2
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews8,442
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Maps, Annotated: The World's 300 Greatest Maps Explained
by DK
- List rank#3
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews13
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The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World
- List rank#4
- Price$15.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews128
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The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
- List rank#5
- Price$9.40
- Rating4.7
- Reviews3,096
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Unelected
by Jennica Pounds
- List rank#6
- Price$14.95
- Rating5.0
- Reviews171
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Man's Search for Meaning
- List rank#7
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews101,090
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To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
- List rank#8
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews145
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A People's History of the United States: The Classic National Bestseller—American History from the Bottom Up, from Columbus to Clinton
by Howard Zinn
- List rank#9
- Price$12.49
- Rating4.7
- Reviews17,647
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The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
- List rank#10
- Price$14.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews689
Subcategories
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FAQ
Is World a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 31/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 1,024 reviews and sells for $9.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in World?
The median best seller has 1,024 reviews, and 19% of them have fewer than 100.
What do World best sellers cost?
The median price is $9.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $2.99 and $14.99.
Can new books break into World?
17% 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.