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Domestic Thrillers — lane score
Domestic Thrillers lane score: opportunity 51/100 (rank 26 of 54), greenlight band Strong-buy, 2,705 demand signals logged in the last 30 days. Free, no sign-up.
Opportunity score51/100moderate opportunity · rank 26 of 54
GreenlightStrong-buyscore 86/100 · bankable
Demand signals logged, 30 days2,705read in this lane in the last 30 days (when read, not when posted)
Typical list price$9.9963% of the lane is in Kindle Unlimited
Chart-topper ceiling$324,126per month, modelled at $9.99
Note: Strong demand signals. Big earnings in this lane (chart-toppers up to ~$324,126/mo at $9.99). (Heavily Kindle Unlimited — that dollar figure is an upper bound; real earnings run lower since most reads are KU page-reads, not list-price sales.)
Where the score comes from
| Component | Percentile among scored lanes |
|---|
| Demand signals logged (all time) | 43rd |
| Revenue (modelled) | 96th |
| Fewer titles linked to the lane than other lanes | 45th |
| Top-100 chart turnover (where the lane is charted) | 6th |
Length and series shape that sell here
| Median Kindle length | 308 pages |
| Median length, all formats | 320 pages |
| Recent releases | 196 pages |
| Novella-length share, recent | 50% |
| Dominant series shape | Standalone |
How this number is measured
Counted from the Tropesmith corpus, and recounted as the corpus grows (revenue figures are modelled from sales rank): 5,078,619 Goodreads reviews, 4,137,764 shelf signals, 2,894,363 demand-signal records and 145,637 BookTok videos, across 142,764 trope-tagged titles and 5,132 distinct tropes in 146 demand lanes. The raw response for this lane is available as JSON.
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