Barnes & Noble invented the low - cost,
basic tablet category with the Nook Color, a paired - down Android slate aimed at people who love e-books.
On September 6, as we summarized here, Amazon unveiled its holiday - season 2012
category shakers, upgrading its Kindle Fire
tablets and the
basic Kindle e-reader itself, while at the same time introducing the Kindle Paperwhite, the newest iteration of its iconic e-reader.