Amazon is taking preorders for its newly-announced Kindle Paperwhite WiFi 6″ eBook Reader with Kindle Special Offers for $119 with Free Shipping. There’s also a WiFi + 3G model of the Kindle Paperwhite 6″ eBook Reader with Kindle Special Offers for $179 with Free Shipping. Orders placed today are expected to ship the week of October 8, 2012. The special offers models contains sponsored screensaver when the Kindle is off and on the bottom of the home screen. It does not intrude the reading experience. Both models can do away with the Kindle’s Special Offers for $20 more.

The new Kindle Paperwhite offers a higher resolution (62% more pixels) and contrast (25% shaper) e-ink display, patented built-in light that evenly illuminates the screen, up to an 8-week battery life (even with its light on), 2GB internal storage (holds up to 1,100 books), 9.1mm thickness, 802.11n wireless, adjustable brightness, and much more.

Amazon also has their baseline Kindle 6″ eBook Reader with Kindle Special Offers for just $69 (79 – 10 price reduction) with Free Shipping.