Kindle 3 Tops Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Becomes Amazon's Best Selling Product

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As we have seen Amazon do in the past, they have offered up some impressive stats without actually offering up anything in terms of numbers. That said, the Amazon Worldwide 2010 Holiday Facts information has come available and it shows the Kindle 3 as having knocked off Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows as the best selling product of all time on Amazon.

Based on that, this next figure probably comes more as expected, but nonetheless;

“Kindle (Wi-Fi) and Kindle 3G were the best-selling products on Amazon.com this holiday season.”

And on top of that, it was also noted that “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.” Big day for the Kindle, of course, assuming those new users follow through that will only lead to more good days for Amazon in terms of ebook sales.

In terms of books, “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” was both the most purchased and also the most gifted Kindle book on Christmas Day. And just as a side note, that along with the two others in the series are excellent books. But my reading habits aside, other facts coming from Amazon include;

• On the peak day this season, Amazon’s worldwide fulfillment network shipped over 9 million units across all product categories.
• Amazon shipped to 178 countries.
• Amazon shipped over 350,000 units to APO/FPO addresses.
• Amazon customers purchased enough snow/tire chains to outfit the entire population of three of America’s top ski cities: Aspen, Breckenridge and Sun Valley.
• For the holiday time period alone, Amazon customers bought enough copies of “Eclipse” for Edward Cullen to watch the movie 1,000 times a day for all 109 years of his life.
• Amazon customers purchased so many pairs of jeans that if you folded each pair and stacked them on top of each other, the height would be the equivalent of Mt. Everest.
• Amazon customers purchased enough Kyjen Hide-a-Squirrels to hide one toy squirrel everyday for the next 100 years.
• Amazon customers purchased more Philips Norelco shavers this holiday season than the average beard hairs on a man’s face.

In addition, other holiday best sellers included the 8GB iPod touch, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Toy Story 3, Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 and in terms of mobile phones — the Samsung Captivate with AT&T, the HTC Droid Incredible with Verizon Wireless and the Motorola Droid X with Verizon Wireless.