NEWS: Some e-commerce figures – amazon

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Wow. We are where we should have been for about 4 years :-)

Amazon Worldwide 2006 Holiday

  • Amazon.com shipped more than 99 percent of orders in time to meet holiday deadlines worldwide
  • On the peak day this season, Amazon’s worldwide fulfillment network shipped over 3.4 million units
  • Amazon.com shipped to over 200 countries
  • The 2006 holiday season finished as its best ever, with its busiest day being December 11th. On this day Amazon customer orders exceeded 4 million items

Holiday 2006 Facts

  • Tops in video game hardware were the Nintendo DS Lite available in white, pink and black as well as Play Station 2 and the Xbox 360
  • In DVDs, top sellers included Pirates of the Caribbean – Dead Man’s Chest (Two-Disc Collectors Edition), Cars (Widescreen Edition) and An Inconvenient Truth
  • In music, the top sellers included Awake by Josh Groban, Love by the Beatles and Wintersong by Sarah McLachlan
  • Top sellers in Consumer Electronics include Apple iPods (various), Canon Powershot Digital Elph Cameras and Garmin GPS Systems
  • Top Software titles include World of Warcraft Expansion: Burning Crusade (not yet released), The Sims 2 Pet Expansion Pack (Windows Me, 98, XP, 2000) and Adobe Photoshop Elements 5 (Windows XP)
  • In PCs, the top sellers were the Apple MacBook 13.3″ Notebook PC in white and black and the Sony VAIO 15.4″ Notebook PC

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