After days of excited reports about the very latest demos of mostly non-existent but planned ebook readers, the press has now had enough and decided they are too many devices and the market is over. Gizmodo is among those writing: “The introduction of e-ink-based readers by many big tech companies and a handful of feisty little ones threatens to sow confusion in the market place, encourage piracy, and screw over any company who gets in and then can’t really hack it against Kindle and Nook. And all of it will be a pointless exercise when long-lasting slates are a reality.” […]