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Amazon: Third-gen Kindle is all-time bestseller
Move over, Harry Potter, there's a new retail champion on Amazon.
The online retailer announced today that its third-generation Kindle, which features a version boasting both Wi-Fi and 3G
connectivity and another offering only Wi-Fi, is now the
bestselling product of all time on Amazon. It bested "Harry
Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)."
On Christmas Day, "more people turned on new Kindles for the
first time, downloaded more Kindle Buy Once, Read
Everywhere apps, and purchased more Kindle books than on
any other day in history," Amazon reported.
Unfortunately, Amazon still continues to leave actual unit sales
figures out of its Kindle announcements. But considering the e-
reader is the top-selling product of all time on the online retail
site, it's safe to say sales are quite high. Back in October, Amazon announced that Kindle sales were already up over holiday sales in 2009.
Beyond the Kindle, Amazon offered up some interesting
statistics about holiday shopping.
Amazon reported that it sold the most products in a single day
on November 29, catering to 13.7 million orders worldwide. The
company said 158 items were purchased every second on the
site that day. On its "peak day" during the holiday shopping
season, it shipped more than 9 million products around the world.
Amazon also reported that consumers were most likely to buy
shoppers were most likely to add items to their shopping carts on Fridays.
In the electronics space, the Wi-Fi-only Kindle and Kindle 3G
took the top spots based on unit sales between November 14 and
of Duty: Black Ops was the bestselling video game during that
period, followed by Just Dance 2 and Donkey Kong Country
Returns. On the wireless side, Samsung's Captivate was the
bestselling handset, followed by the HTC Droid Incredible and
the Motorola Droid X.
"Inception" was the bestselling movie, while "The Confession:
A Novel" by John Grisham led Kindle book sales. Kanye West's
"My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" was the top seller on
Amazon MP3 during the period.
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