• The Wall Street Journal , Friday, December 26, 2008 1:45 PM

During a time of projected weakness for most retailers, including online sales, Amazon reported that 2008 was its "best ever" holiday shopping season.

However, the online retailer provided few details in a Wall Street Journal report, declining to comment on its 2008 sales prices or margins, although Amazon did say that on peak day, Dec. 15, it received a more than 6.3 million orders at a pace of 72.9 items per second.

The company's top sellers for the period of Nov. 15 through Dec. 19 were Nintendo's Wii, Jakks Pacific's Eyeclops night-vision goggles, Samsung's 52-inch LCD High-Definition television and Apple's 8-gigabyte iPod Touch. Among DVDs, Amazon said "Wall-E," and "The Dark Knight" sold well. Top sellers in books included "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" by J.K. Rowling, and two works by Stephenie Meyer, "Eclipse" and "Breaking Dawn."

Read the whole story at The Wall Street Journal »