Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) is hosting an invitation-only press conference today at 10 a.m. ET in which it will all but certainly unveil a Kindle tablet to go head-to-head with Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPad.

While the track record of previous iPad competitors has been abysmal, Motley Fool technology editor Eric Bleeker believes Amazon has the ingredients for success.

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