Amazon says: "the 2008 holiday season finished as its best ever, with over 6.3 million items ordered worldwide on the peak day, December 15, which is a record-breaking 72.9 items per second."
The press release includes a number of "fun facts" such as: "Amazon sold enough Munchkin Mozart Magic Cubes to fill every seat in the Sydney Opera House five times over."
As for the key consumer electronics section, Amazon says:
Top sellers in consumer electronics included Samsung's 52-inch 1080p 120Hz LCD HDTV with RED Touch of Color, the Apple iPod touch 8 GB (2nd Generation) and the Acer Aspire One 8.9-inch netbook (1.6 GHz Intel Atom N270 processor, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB hard drive, XP Home, 6 cell battery), sapphire blue.
Nintendo dominated games sales, as you'd expect.
Amazon seems to be doing better than traditional retailers in the US. As Reuters reported:
Retailers' sales fell as much as 4 percent during the holiday season, as the weak economy and bad weather created one of the worst holiday shopping climates in modern times, according to data released on Thursday by SpendingPulse.
Amazon hasn't said anything about its profit margins, but we'll see how it's doing when it announces its next financial results.
