Customer Purchases: On the peak day, Nov. 26, customers ordered more than 26.5 million items worldwi

Tech More: Amazon Amazon Was Selling 306 Items Every Second At Its Peak This Year
Kindle and Amazon Digital Facts: Kindle Fire HD, Kindle Fire, Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle hold the top four spots on the Amazon worldwide best seller charts since launch. Cyber Monday 2012 was the biggest day ever for Kindle sales worldwide. Christmas Day was the biggest day ever for digital downloads across Amazon’s selection of over 23 million movies, TV shows, songs, magazines, books, audiobooks, and popular apps and games. The most gifted Kindle book during the holiday season was “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't,” by Nate Silver. Selection in the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library in 2012 grew from 75,000 books to over 250,000 books—books that Kindle owners with a Prime membership can borrow for free with no due dates in the US, UK, Germany and France. More than 175,000 exclusive books were added to the Kindle store in 2012. 23 Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) authors each sold over 250,000 copies of their books in 2012. Top sellers this year include Hugh Howey, author home shopping of the New York Times best seller “WOOL,” Stephanie Bond, author home shopping of “Stop the Wedding!,” the #2 best-selling book in the Kindle Store in December, and Barbara Freethy and CJ Lyons—both members of the Kindle Million Club. Amazon’s digital media selection grew to over 23 million movies, home shopping TV shows, songs, magazines, books, audiobooks, and popular apps and games in 2012, an increase from 19 million in 2011. Prime Instant Video selection increased from 12,000 to over 33,000 movies and TV episodes home shopping in 2012. Amazon Instant Video selection increased from 100,000 to 145,000 movies and TV episodes. home shopping Amazon Appstore for Android selection nearly tripled in 2012 over 2011. Sales of apps and games during the holiday home shopping period alone were up more than 250 percent over the same period last year.
Shipping: Amazon home shopping customers took advantage of free shipping over the holidays, saving hundreds of millions of dollars with Amazon Prime and Free Super Saver Shipping. On its peak day, Amazon’s worldwide fulfillment network shipped over 15.6 million units across all product categories. The last Prime One-Day Shipping order that was delivered in time for Christmas was placed on Dec. 22 at 11:52 p.m. PST and shipped to Fayetteville, home shopping GA. The item was Roxy Women’s Hot Cocoa Slippers. The last Local Express Delivery order that was delivered in time for Christmas went to Seattle, WA. It was a Case Logic 14.1-Inch Laptop Attaché that was ordered at 11:44 a.m. PST on Christmas Eve and delivered at 2:44 p.m. PST.
Customer Purchases: On the peak day, Nov. 26, customers ordered more than 26.5 million items worldwide across all product categories, which is a record-breaking 306 items per second. Amazon customers purchased more than one toy per second on mobile devices. Amazon customers purchased enough copies of the “Fifty Shades” trilogy by E.L. James, including “Fifty Shades of Grey,” “Fifty Shades Darker,” “Fifty Shades Freed” and the trilogy box set, to create a stack 445 times taller than the Space Needle. The cumulative weight of the “Bond 50” Blu-ray sets purchased by Amazon customers this holiday season would be 800 times the weight of Daniel Craig. If each customer that purchased a copy of Just Dance 4 played the game for one hour, the total number of calories burned would equal half a million slices of fruitcake. Amazon customers purchased enough TVs to cover the field of every NFL stadium. Amazon customers purchased enough vinyl copies of The Beatles albums that if laid flat would extend 20 times the length of Abbey Road in London. The Amazon MP3 store has sold enough music for everyone at Woodstock home shopping ’69 to jam out to another three days of music for peace and love. If you stacked every Christmas Story Leg Lamp purchased by Amazon customers this holiday home shopping season, the height would reach the top of Mt. Everest. Amazon customers purchased enough sports team garden gnomes to fill every seat in Madison Square Garden. Amazon customers purchased enough Angry Birds plush toys to stretch 285 times the height of the tallest tree in the world, located in California’s Redwood Forest. Amazon’s third-party sellers sold enough Lindt truffles to serve one to every traveler passing through Chicago O’Hare Airport over a weekend. Amazon’s third-party sellers sold enough HDMI cables to make three round-trips to the International Space Station. Amazon customers added more than 15 million home shopping toys to their Wish Lists this holiday home shopping season.
Holiday Best Sellers (Amazon.com only) : Electronics: Kindle Fire HD 7”; Kindle Fire; and Kindle home shopping Fire HD 8.9” TVs: VIZIO 60-inch Razor LED Smart HDTV; Panasonic home shopping VIERA 55-Inch 3D Plasma TV; and Samsung 32-Inch LED HDTV Cameras: home shopping Canon Powe