Amazon announced this week that its newest Kindle, the Kindle Paperwhite, will start shipping at the end of ths month. So what does the new and improved Kindle Paperwhite have to offer that the original flavour Kindle and the Kindle DX don’t? (It makes no sense to compare the Kindle Paperwhite to the Kindle Fire, as they are completely different animals – the Fire being a full-fledged tablet, and the Paperwhite being a reader only.)

Toys R Us is throwing their hat, or rather tablet, into the ring by introducing the Tabeo. The Tabeo is a tablet made just for children, and is proving that it might be a worthy adversary for the new kid-friendly Kindle Fire HD.

Check it out! You can get a free Nook (basic model) or a Nook Color for half price ($99 instead of $199) if you subscribe to the digital version of the New York Times (NYT) for a year. Now, granted, the subscription to the New York Times is $19.99 a month, making your free Nook actually cost $239.88, but given that a monthly digital subscription to the New York Times is $20 per month anyways, you are still getting one for $20.00 a month, and the other for free.

Amazon started shipping their new tablet based Kindle, the Kindle Fire today. Here is what Amazon sent today to those eager customers who had pre-ordered the Kindle Fire.

Amazon has announced their new Kindle tablet – the Amazon Kindle Fire (Get it? Kindle…Fire…), and while it may not be an iPad killer, the Amazon tablet very well may be some serious competition for the iPad. In addition to being able to access all of Amazon’s catalogues – books, music, movies, and more – on the tablet, you can access Amazon’s Android app store (the Kindle Fire runs a modified Android under the hood), you can subscribe to magazines, you can check email, and you can browse the web using Amazon’s snappy new web browser, Amazon Silk (not sure what silk has to do with fire), and, you can run Flash with the Kindle Silk browser – which the iPad can’t (or rather won’t) do. All this for only $199!