Specialty Travel — Kindle Category Opportunity
Competition snapshot for the Travel best-seller list, ease-of-entry score 6.0/100.
Category metrics
Score
6.0
Median reviews
1,059.5
Weak share (top 20)
10%
Median price
$7.99
Median star rating
4.6
Books scanned
50
Worth writing in?
Specialty Travel 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 6.0/100.
Breakout books — top 15, under 100 reviews, $0.99–4.99
Best-seller list on Amazon| # | Title | Star | Reviews | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | A Happy and Affordable Retirement: How to Create a Personalized Bucket List for Your Successful Third Act | 4.8 | 59 | $0.99 |
High-frequency phrases in this category's titles
Mine all categoriesHigh-frequency phrases mined from the 50 best-seller titles on this category's list. The ease-of-entry score tells you how winnable the category is; these title phrases tell you which words readers search with — use the two layers together. Frequency is a title statistic, not a search-volume estimate.
| Phrase | Titles | Rank-weighted score |
|---|---|---|
| kingdom keepers | 2 | 52 |
| behind our home chilling | 2 | 44 |
| home chilling true | 2 | 44 |
| woods behind our home | 2 | 44 |
| appalachian trail | 2 | 17 |
| around the world | 2 | 10 |
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21 subcategories under this category
| Subcategory | Score | Median reviews |
|---|---|---|
| █████ | 75.0 | 6.5 |
| █████ | 74.5 | 3 |
| █████ | 70.0 | 7 |
| █████ | 65.5 | 24.5 |
| █████ | 65.0 | 45 |
| █████ | 62.5 | 32.5 |
| █████ | 59.0 | 22 |
| █████ | 58.0 | 14 |
| █████ | 56.0 | 73 |
| █████ | 55.5 | 16.5 |
| █████ | 55.0 | 111 |
| █████ | 54.0 | 70 |
| █████ | 53.0 | 59 |
| █████ | 52.0 | 52 |
| █████ | 52.0 | 109.5 |
| █████ | 49.5 | 163 |
| █████ | 48.5 | 118 |
| █████ | 46.0 | 86.5 |
| █████ | 43.5 | 135.5 |
| █████ | 11.0 | 600.5 |
| █████ | 7.5 | 2394 |
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Research snapshot scanned on Oct 19, 2026. Refreshed periodically — not live tracking.