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Notebook

Maybe

An estimated 0.3% of orders come back. But products sell for $6.70 on average, outside the sweet spot, so Notebook is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
60
60 / 100
Top 5% of 835 Stationery & Office Supplies niches · +13 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£1.8M/yr6.3M searches / yr
90-day growth
-8.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
34%top-5 click share · 33 brands · 90 sellers

Flapen Score

Notebook against its category

The dotted line is the Stationery & Office Supplies average. Past it, Notebook is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

60Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Notebook market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Notebook 6.3M times last year and spent an estimated £1.8M. The top 5 brands take 43% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan. Flapen scores it 60 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 4.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 6.3M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 4.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -8.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £1.8M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
6.3M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-8.5%
Conversion, latest week
4.3%
Market size, estimated
£1.8Ma year
Peak month
January1.8× the quietest month
Top search term
notebook2.0M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £6.70.

Listings sell for £6.70 on average, from £0.71 to £20.53. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 250K to 300K a year. The average listing sells 3,000 to 4,000 of them. At £6.70 that is £20K to £27K a year per listing.

Average price
£6.70under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£0.71–£20.53
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
250K–300K
Units per listing a year
3,000–4,000
Revenue per listing a year
£20K–£27K
Returns
0.3%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

80% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 98% ship with Prime. On an average day, 8.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #18 within Notebooks, Writing Pads & Diaries. It carries 2,225 reviews at 4.64 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
80%
Prime listings
98%
Out of stock, average day
8.0%
Average rank
#18in Notebooks, Writing Pads & Diaries
Average rating
4.64 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
2,225per listing
Listings tracked
51

04 · Newcomers

4 of last year's 8 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

8 products launched here in the last 12 months. 4 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 42 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
8
Successful launches
4Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
42 months

Products

Top Notebook products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 29, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 34% of clicks, no more. An open shelf where new products get seen.

£0£55K£110K£165K£220K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

33 falling

Sellers

90

Est. top-5 brand share

43%

Top 20: 88%

Est. top-5 click share

34%

Top 20: 70%

Open market

52%

  • SUMMIT13%
  • Smarpau10%
  • Pukka Pad8%
  • nu:7%
  • RETTACY6%
  • Lefute4%

Demand

Notebook search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

200K150KSpike '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.8×

Search terms

Top Notebook search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with estimated yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • notebook2.0M/yr
  • journal908K/yr
  • a5 notebook617K/yr
  • notebook a5558K/yr
  • notepad390K/yr
  • note book367K/yr
  • notebooks289K/yr
  • note pad185K/yr
  • writing pad124K/yr
  • note books116K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Notebook

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

26%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
21%of negative reviews mention “Paper Quality”
0.3%of orders come back
“which makes it less useful as jotter paper”
A buyer, on “Paper Quality”21% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

15 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Notebook questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data