Jeff Bezos, Chairman and CEO of Amazon.com, introduces the Kindle Fire at a news conference, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011 in New York.Mark Lennihan/The Associated Press
Amazon.com Inc. said on Thursday that its Kindle Fire tablet accounts for 22 per cent of U.S. tablet sales and that the device is sold out.
The news from Amazon comes one week before it holds a press event in Santa Monica, California, fueling speculation it will launch new tablet devices.
The sold out tablet hit stores last November at a cost well below that of Apple Inc.'s market-leading iPad.
Since the Kindle Fire launch last year, Google Inc. has introduced a seven-inch tablet called Nexus 7, which has been selling well. Barnes & Noble Inc's Nook Tablet, introduced last autumn, has also been popular.
Amazon said its Kindle Fire is sold out, but its statement did not say when the device would be back in stock, nor how many Amazon has sold.
Since the launch of the tablet last year, Amazon's top-selling products have all been digital products such as mucis, videos and movies, Amazon said.