Amazon.com,
Inc. today announced that 2011 was the best holiday ever for the Kindle family
as customers purchased millions of Kindle Fires and millions of Kindle
e-readers.
More Kindle holiday facts for 2011.
- Throughout
December, customers purchased well over 1 million Kindle devices per week.
- The
new Kindle family held the top three spots on the Amazon.com best seller
charts – #1: Kindle Fire, #2: Kindle Touch, #3: Kindle.
- Kindle
Fire is the #1 best-selling, most gifted, and most wished for product
across the millions of items available on Amazon.com since its
introduction 13 weeks ago.
- Kindle
is also the best-selling product on Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr,
Amazon.es and Amazon.it this holiday season.
- Gifting
of Kindle books was up 175 percent between this Black Friday and Christmas
Day compared to the same period in 2010.
- Christmas
Day was the biggest day ever for Kindle book downloads.
- Kindle
Fire is the best-selling product on Amazon.com’s mobile website and across
all of Amazon.com’s mobile applications.