Amazon and Barnes & Noble were just two of many companies promoting e-readers at the beginning of 2010. Thanks to rising cost pressures and competition from the likes of Apple, they may soon be the only ones. – At January’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas,
tablets and e-readers seemed all the rage. Samsung, Amazon.com, Barnes amp;
Noble, Plastic Logic, Spring Design, a Heart subsidiary and a host of others
all used the convention to debut their own take on the e-reader. And why not?
Amazon’s Ki…