Counseling & Psychology — Kindle Category Opportunity
Competition snapshot for the Health, Fitness & Dieting best-seller list, ease-of-entry score 32.5/100.
Category metrics
Score
32.5
Median reviews
4,572
Weak share (top 20)
5%
Median price
$8.84
Median star rating
4.6
Books scanned
50
Worth writing in?
Counseling & Psychology is heavily defended: incumbents are deep-reviewed and the top 20 rarely cracks. New releases can still chart with ads or a launch push, but expect to climb over established authors rather than around them. Ease-of-entry score 32.5/100.
Breakout books — top 15, under 100 reviews, $0.99–4.99
Best-seller list on AmazonNo breakout books in this category.
High-frequency phrases in this category's titles
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| Phrase | Titles | Rank-weighted score |
|---|---|---|
| change your life | 3 | 87 |
| professional and personal life | 2 | 58 |
| transform your life | 2 | 26 |
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48 subcategories under this category
| Subcategory | Score | Median reviews |
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| █████ | 85.0 | 1.5 |
| █████ | 84.0 | 1 |
| █████ | 83.0 | 3.5 |
| █████ | 82.5 | 3.5 |
| █████ | 77.5 | 1 |
| █████ | 72.5 | 2 |
| █████ | 71.0 | 31 |
| █████ | 70.5 | 15 |
| █████ | 70.0 | 9 |
| █████ | 69.0 | 3 |
| █████ | 60.5 | 55 |
| █████ | 60.5 | 52 |
| █████ | 60.0 | 96 |
| █████ | 56.0 | 37.5 |
| █████ | 56.0 | 37 |
| █████ | 53.5 | 74.5 |
| █████ | 53.0 | 74 |
| █████ | 52.0 | 35.5 |
| █████ | 50.5 | 154.5 |
| █████ | 49.5 | 60 |
| █████ | 48.0 | 202 |
| █████ | 48.0 | 59 |
| █████ | 47.5 | 665.5 |
| █████ | 47.0 | 151 |
| █████ | 43.5 | 151.5 |
| █████ | 43.5 | 76.5 |
| █████ | 42.5 | 877 |
| █████ | 42.0 | 99.5 |
| █████ | 41.0 | 148.5 |
| █████ | 39.5 | 1120.5 |
| █████ | 38.5 | 829 |
| █████ | 38.5 | 857.5 |
| █████ | 35.0 | 1862.5 |
| █████ | 35.0 | 697 |
| █████ | 35.0 | 569 |
| █████ | 32.5 | 4121.5 |
| █████ | 32.5 | 2626.5 |
| █████ | 10.0 | 805.5 |
| █████ | 7.5 | 757 |
| █████ | 6.0 | 1811.5 |
| █████ | 6.0 | 5061.5 |
| █████ | 5.0 | 1128 |
| █████ | 5.0 | 428.5 |
| █████ | 3.5 | 1048 |
| █████ | 2.5 | 4899.5 |
| █████ | 2.5 | 239.5 |
| █████ | 2.5 | 810 |
| █████ | 0.0 | 3512.5 |
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