Amazon’s third-generation Kindle is now the bestselling product ever on Amazon.com replacing ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.’ The company also announced that on its peak day, 29 November, customers ordered more than 13.7 million items worldwide across all product categories, which is at the rate of 158 items per second. On this year’s Christmas day, more people turned on new Kindles for the first time, downloaded more Kindle Buy Once, Read Everywhere applications and purchased more Kindle books than on any other day in history. On the peak day this season, Amazon's worldwide fulfillment network shipped over 9 million units across all product categories. Kindle (Wi-Fi) and Kindle 3G were the best selling products on Amazon.com this holiday season. ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ was the most purchased and the most gifted Kindle book on Christmas day. Among Amazon’s top 500 most popular Kindle books, ‘The Dork Diaries’ saw the greatest gain in popularity on Christmas day. There were millions of Price Checks from Black Friday through the Free Super-Saver Shipping cut-off date, for delivery before Christmas.
During the holiday season, the biggest mobile shopping days for iPad, iPhone and Android users was Sunday, however the biggest mobile shopping day for BlackBerry users was Friday. Kindle books such as ‘The Confession: A Novel’ by John Grisham, ‘Decision Points’ by George Bush and ‘Unbroken’ by Laura Hillenbrand were the best sellers this holiday season. Anime Studio Debut 7, Manga Studio Debut 4 and Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 were the top selling software. Samsung Captivate Android Phone by AT&T, HTC Droid Incredible Android Phone and Motorola Droid X Android Phone, both by Verizon Wireless were the top selling smartphones.