We knew we could feel the winds of change coming, but I don’t know if anybody was really prepared for the sheer deluge of new e-Readers that are poised to flood the market in 2010. We’ve already touched on the rumored Apple iSlate, and Heart’s Skiff caught our attention just the other day. With the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas kicking into gear Thursday, I suppose it was inevitable that we’d be up to our necks in e-Readers. Here’s a quick rundown of the newest entrants so far.

Samsung’s E6 and E101
Price: $399 and $699 respectively
Release Date: Early 2010
Key features: The names of the readers refer to their size. The E6 is a 6-inch display, the same size as the Kindle 2, where the 101 is, predictable, 10.1 inches, and more closely aligns to the Kindle DX’s form factor. Probably the biggest differentiator is the EMR stylus pen that lets you annotate by hand-writing on the screen itself.
Our take: The stylus is a neat feature, but I’ve never had much of a problem typing notes on the Kindle’s QWERTY keyboard. Unless Samsung comes up with some differentiating capabilities, these things are dead in the water at their price point.

Plastic Logic’s Que proReader
Price: $649 for the 4GB version, $799 for the 8GB with 3G
Release Date: April 2010
Key features: The 8.5-by-11 inch flexible touchscreen is its biggest sell, allowing users to drop and bend the device without fear of breaking it. It also supports Powerpoint and Excel documents natively. As we’ve discussed before, it will draw its content from B&N’s robust content library.
Our take: Plastic Logic plans to market the Que towards professionals, which is good, because I don’t know that most people are going to look kindle on a device that does much the same as the Kindle DX for twice the price. Having said that, the technology they used to develop a light-weight touchscreen is intriguing, if it’s not soon trumped by another company who can do it in full color too.

Amazon’s Kindle DX International
Price: $489
Release Date: January 19
Key features: It’s the Kindle DX we all know and love, but now it features International 3G coverage by AT&T. This also means that would-be Kindle DX owners living abroad should finally be able to get their hands on one.
Our take: Obviously, this can hardly be considered a new entrant into the e-Reader market all by its lonesome, but Amazon’s continued push to make International 3G a de facto feature is a promising one. If you were thinking of getting a Kindle DX, just wait a few more weeks and you can get the fancy new version that will let you buy books on vacation in a foreign land.