Pedagogy (I actually had to look up what this word meant.haha).Foreign Language Study & Reference (Kindle Store).Language Instruction – Miscellaneous (Kindle Store).Language Experience Approach (Kindle Store).I will then systematically go through each book and check their category string links like below:ĭoing the above, I checked out other books and found the following categories: Our goal is to get a list of books that are similar to our book. So, to start this, we’ll begin by typing into the Amazon search box any words to describe our book. Instead, we need to ‘find’ pertinent but niche categories. In this example, I will be trying to find a good category for a language book: Step 1: Research Potential Book Categoriesĭid you know there are over 16,000+ Amazon Categories? But sadly, Amazon doesn’t just list them all in one spot somewhere (except that this program does, incase you want to see all 16,000+)- if they did, I’d be a super happy camper. Follow the steps below or listen to our podcast episode for finding the most worthwhile book categories.įor this, I will be using an example. There are two steps to finding out how to choose a good kindle category or Amazon book category. Help your book now Get Rocket Now How to Find the Amazon Book Categories Over 47,000+ authors, NYT bestsellers, and publishing companies use Publisher Rocket to gain key insight to the market. Now, let's look at how to find the best Amazon categories for your book or ebook. So, the category you choose has a DIRECT effect on whether you’ll become an Amazon Best Seller and get that attractive bestseller tag. Again, using my calculator, that’s only 3 books a day.īig difference, right? 90 books vs 3 books? However, if you choose a category where the #1 book has an ABSR of 70,000, then all you need is an ABSR of 69,999 or less. Using my kindle calculator, you’d find out that you’d need to sell over 90 books per day to reach that. If you choose a category where the #1 book in that category has an ABSR of 2,000, then you’d need to have an ABSR or 1,999 or less in order to be the new #1.

So, choosing your kindle categories or book categories will have a direct effect on whether or not you become a bestseller. So, if your book has the LOWEST ABSR of all books that are attached to an Amazon category, then you are the #1 best seller in that category. If you have an ABSR of 1,000,000, then it means there are 999,999 books selling better than you. With this, if you have an ABSR of 1000, then it means that at that point in time, there are 999 books on Amazon selling better than you. Amazon assigns the ABSR of a book based on how many sales or downloads it has had over a certain period of time as compared to all other books on the Amazon market.

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