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The final weekend of CES has come and gone, but the ereader news keeps coming. Here’s a look around the web at the final coverage of ebooks and ereaders.

Samsung won’t be left out. Here’s the first few of their ereaders being released in the US (mediabistro)

iriver shows off their Kindle Story (Engadget)

Wired enjoys Spring Design’s Alex, but realizes it faces some challenges ahead (Wired)

Jinke goes with SiPix panels over E-ink for their ereaders (Engadget)

Qualcomm’s Mirasol screen impresses with full motion video (Engadget)

Wired also goes hands on with the Plastic Logic QUE proReader (Wired)

The RCA Lexi fails to impress, work (Engadget)

Engadget does a great overview of ereaders and ebooks at CES

The explosion of ereaders at this year’s CES has been pretty remarkable. Not just the amount of devices being announced, but also the sheer quantity of viable technologies for future devices. This is a market and industry still wide open; there is no one format that rules over the rest (but plenty of contenders, see Blio).

The other issue is that in a world where smartphones are getting easier and easier to use and more people have them, people expect their devices to do more. Is there a place for a device that just reads books? Or are these devices expected to make your books do more? This will be an interesting year indeed!

And we know for a fact the interest is there: the Kindle is selling fairly well and a little bird told four7s that at least one of the device manufacturers discussed above signed an international distribution deal during a meeting at CES. We’ll be keeping track as more of these devices make it out of the gate.