Amazon Kindle Ebook Categories

Choosing kindle categories is a bloody nightmare over at kdp with the little box they put you in.

Amazon kindle ebook categories. Think of browse categories like the sections of a physical bookstore fiction history and so on. Kindle store category bestseller list the 1 most competitive category on amazon kindle is romance contemporary. Or after doing hours of research to find that perfect category for your ebook you discover that you just cannot select it.

There are millions of kindle ebooks in the kindle store. Here s an amazon kindle book categories list that is far easier to navigate for all you authors out there who find choosing kindle categories as much of a task as i do. As it turns out amazon doesn t offer every existing category for you to select when you publish your book.

More importantly amazon has made some changes to the way they do categories. Have you ever noticed that when you go to publish your book and select a category on kindle certain categories cannot be found. This list is based on the bisac book industry standards and communications code.

Select up to two categories. There are secret kindle categories that amazon doesn t tell you about when publishing and the simple fact that you can actually be listed for 7 extra categories legitimately. The biggest selection of ebooks and audiobooks from kindle in literature fiction foreign languages religion spirituality business romance history kids non fiction chick lit mysteries thrillers and science fiction.

Amazon kindle categories subcategories list for book authors. On the kindle store this list actually displays like this. Find the top 100 most popular items in amazon kindle store best sellers.

I honestly expected literature fiction to be on top or at least romance but no the winner is kindle ebooks foreign languages with a high 65 ratio of indie books. Kindle ebooks foreign languages kindle ebooks education teaching kindle ebooks humor entertainment these are not categories that indie blogs talk about yet the data is clear. During title setup you ll choose two browse categories from a list.