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Amazon boasts best-ever holiday weekend sales

December 1, 2016

The holiday weekend proved to be a sales bonanza for online retailer Amazon as it sold millions of its devices and sales were up double compared to last year.

Amazon's Fire TV Stick with Alexa voice remote, Fire tablet, Echo and Echo dot devices were the best selling devices overall on the retailer's ecommerce site and sales of the Echo product were up seven fold over last year's Cyber Monday, according to an announcement.

"Customers purchased millions of Amazon's Alexa-enabled devices this holiday weekend — the all-new Echo Dot, the best-selling 7" Fire tablet, and the new Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote are all available for under $50 and all powered by Alexa," said Dave Limp, senior vice president, Amazon Devices & Services, in the announcement.