Android powered Amazon tablet in the pipeline?

An Amazon Android tablet is on the horizon, reports Wall Street Journal. According to the report, Amazon will launch their tablet by October pitting it against the iPad and a variety of Android tablets.
 
Amazon already has a substantial portfolio of content generation services in the form of their online retail store and apps store for Android devices, so venturing into the tablet spectrum would be a logical decision.
 
Besides this, Amazon also has considerable experience in hardware distribution with their successful Kindle e-book reader.
 
According to MG Seigler of TechCrunch.com, a 9-inch tablet is on the cards, which will not leverage Google services but would promote Amazon services, in the process giving the Amazon tablet a differentiator.
 
While it is widely expected that the tablet will go head to head with the iPad, perhaps not in terms of hardware but might undercut it with aggressive pricing.