The Kno ebook is targeting the textbook market.
Article at Slash Gear
There is also an article that mentions the Kno in the NYT. Excerpt from NYT article:
You know how one thing leads to another? Well, that’s what happened with Osman Rashid, the co-founder and CEO of Kno, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based startup that’s publicly previewing its digital textbook platform and device (Kno) today. Rashid, who previously started Chegg, a Netflix-for-college-text-books service, was struck by the archaic nature of the whole college textbook experience. So he and lifelong friend Babur Habib started to wonder what it would be like if students could carry essentially their entire backpack in a single device, on which they could access textbooks, surf the web, scribble notes and even take exams. Better yet, what about turning this into a full-blown platform for education applications and at the same time, marry it to an e-book store? How about selling e-tuitions?
Full article: http://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2010/06/02/02gigaom-how-a-startup-wants-to-change-higher-education–w-75627.html
The Kno, a Tablet for the College Market
Article at the NYT Bits Blog
The Kno, a Tablet for the College Market
The success of the Kindle and iPad has sparked a slew of tablet-wannabes. Some are imitators, while others are trying to bring new ideas to the tablet and e-reader concepts.
The Kno, a dual-screen device aimed at the college market, falls in the latter category. The tablet/e-reader, which was first shown in public on Wednesday at the D8 technology conference in Southern California, allows students to view textbooks on its digital screens much as they would appear in their analog versions, with text, color images and graphics.
Full blog post: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/02/the-kno-a-tablet-for-the-college-market/?src=me&ref=technology