Amazon ^[1] sent shivers of excitement through newsrooms across the country Friday when it sent out an invitation to a September 28 press conference. All the invite said was, “Please join us for an Amazon.com press conference,” but those eight words spark intense speculation that Amazon will debut its tablet computer this Wednesday. We’ve already spent a lot of time speculating what that tablet could mean.  Amazon could sell between three to five million of those tablets by the end of this year, Forrester Research ^[2] estimates. Next year, Amazon could hope to sell close to 10 million. All this without seeing anything. And don’t forget that Apple still reigns as supreme Tablet Lord, expecting to sell 48.7 million iPads in 2012.

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