Amazon ebooks nonfiction

As you gain more sales momentum and better sales ranking, you can switch your categories to more competitive ones which will send you more traffic and sales. But which categories can give you the most sales possible on Amazon Kindle? We did a little digging and found out. On the Kindle store, this list actually displays like this:. This list here is purely for Kindle ebooks and Kindle sales. We tracked rankings for 3 different books in each category: The 1 book which is selling the most, the 50 book in the middle, and the book which just barely made the list.

We ranked the lists based on 1 how hard they are to rank for and 2 on how well the average book is selling on the list. That means that if you wanted your ebook to appear on that list, you had to have a rank of or better just to make the spot! If you like this post, you might like our post on the least competitive Amazon Kindle categories as well.

This list is just to give you a general idea of what the most competitive Amazon Kindle bestseller lists are. You might have noticed that the list is dominated by fiction categories. There are only 12 non-fiction categories out of the Top most competitive categories on Amazon Kindle, and the Top 21 are all fiction!

What you might also notice if you start browsing these categories on Amazon is that many of the top books in these competitive categories are by self published and independently published authors.

New self published authors like Hugh Howey , J. Cooper, H. Ward and countless others are outselling traditionally published authors in many cases on Amazon Kindle. We can pick the best categories for your book! Our book promotions manager will hand-select the best 10 categories for your book. He is also the host of the Publishing Profits Podcast show where we interview successful authors and publishing industry experts to share their tips for creating a successful writing career.

These least competitive categories are so uncompetitive that you could literally sell one or two books and get ranked as one of the top books in any of these categories. As you gain more sales momentum and better sales ranking, you can switch your categories to more competitive ones which will send you more traffic and sales.

On the Kindle store, this list actually displays like this:. This list here is purely for Kindle ebooks and Kindle sales. We tracked rankings for 3 different books in each category: The 1 book which is selling the most, the 50 book in the middle, and the book which just barely made the list.

We ranked the lists based on 1 how hard they are to rank for and 2 on how well the average book is selling on the list. That means that if you wanted your ebook to appear on that list, you had to have a rank of 2,, or better to make the spot.

Just one ebook sale in the last 30 days would do it! One big thing you can learn from this list is that 97 out of of the least competitive bestseller lists on Amazon are for nonfiction. There are a few reasons why almost all of the least competitive bestseller lists on Kindle are predominantly nonfiction.

First, nonfiction is a much smaller market than fiction. Second, there are very few fiction bestseller lists compared to nonfiction.

The fiction filter provides a very small list of bestseller lists whereas the nonfiction filter provides thousands of options which can be overwhelming. At Bestseller Ranking Pro, we keep an up-to-date list of every single bestseller list for Amazon Kindle ebooks and physical books. Because fiction is a bigger market meaning more sales , and because there are fewer bestseller lists for fiction titles on Amazon Kindle, there are many nonfiction categories with almost no competition and very few fiction bestseller lists with low competition.

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