Amazon sold over 150 items per second on Cyber Monday

Amazon this morning announced that on its peak day for this year, November 29, customers ordered more than 13.7 million items worldwide across all product categories, which translates to a – self-proclaimed – record-breaking 158 items per second.

November 29 was, of course, Cyber Monday in the United States, the Monday immediately following Black Friday.

According to comScore, overall online spending in the United States surpassed $1 billion on Cyber Monday in 2010, up 16 percent versus year ago. Clearly, Amazon took a huge piece of that particular pie.

Amazon said its worldwide fulfillment network shipped a total of more than 9 million units across all product categories on the peak day this holiday season, to 178 countries.

Kindle Wi-Fi and Kindle 3G were the best-selling products on Amazon.com this season. As we reported earlier today, the new, third-gen Kindle has even surpassed ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ as the bestselling product in Amazon’s history.

How’s that for a merry Christmas? Read more at techcrunch.com