From CNET: The e-commerce giant announced Monday that during the week before Christmas it added more than 3 million subscribers to Prime, the $99-per-year service that offers complimentary two-day and sometimes same-day deliveries.
During the holiday season, which Amazon defines as November 1 to December 19, more than 200 million items were shipped for free to Prime subscribers. Amazon sold more than twice as many of its own branded devices during this holiday season than last.
In what's become an annual post-Christmas tradition, Amazon released interesting figures about its holiday season. While the Seattle-based retailer doesn't reveal exactly how many Prime subscribers it has, it is boasting that now "there are tens of millions of members." It's estimated that Prime has some 47 million US accounts.
The Amazon Fire 7-inch tablet was the company's best seller. Amazon's Fire Kids Edition and Fire HD 6 were also popular with Santa. Other top-selling tech-related items on Amazon included smart TVs by Samsung and Roku; Toshiba laptops; GoPro Hero4 silver cameras; and Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Fallout 4 and Star Wars Battlefront video games.
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