Amazon Reports Best Holiday Shopping Season Ever

Amazon.com reported that the 2005 holiday season was its best ever in terms of number of items ordered.

Orders on Amazon.com surpassed 108 million for the first time, the company said in a post Christmas statement. The 2005 holiday season also brought another single-day record with more than 3.6 million items ordered, or 41 items per second, on Dec. 12th, the company said.

“To our customers around the world–thank you,” said Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com in a statement. “We are grateful to our customers for shopping with us this holiday season and we wish everyone a Happy New Year.”