The included
Kno Textbooks app packs two digital textbooks for Biology and Life Science.
Kno Me will be an integral part of
all Kno textbooks, which are available for iPad, Windows 8, and web browsers, with Android and Windows 7 compatibility coming soon.
When customers purchase
a Kno textbook, they will have the option to add $ 1 to a local project listed through DonorsChoose.
Students can check in frequently with
each Kno textbook they use to see the time spent reading, the notes they've taken, the flashcards they've mastered, which really helps them monitor their progress and have more insight into their learning behavior and how they're studying,» said Osman Rashid, CEO and co-founder of Kno, in an interview with GoodeReader.
Not exact matches
Ebooks downloaded through
Kno offer capabilities like 3D diagrams and a «Quiz Me» button that tests readers on portions in the
textbook.
The
Kno Store provides digital
textbooks 30 - 50 % cheaper than physical books.
Students in over 6,000 universities across the U.S. are using
Kno digital
textbooks, and if you are a huge fan, you might want to pick up this new app!
If you are looking for
textbooks, Google now rents them or you can check out
KNO or CourseSmart.
«
Kno's availability in terms of quantity and quality of digital
textbook content is second to none and is a great showcase of educational digital content and the power of the Ultrabooks.»
New users to the
Kno platform of educational
textbooks will gain a 15 day free trial to experiment with the platform.
But the second component of
Kno Advance which targets the extra information that publishers have been known to include with their
textbook packages is perhaps where the more exciting news lies.
«
Kno provides an incredible user experience for reading digital
textbooks to students, and we're pleased to have them available via Intel AppUp center for people using an Ultrabook,» said George Thangadurai, general manager of PC Client Services, Intel.
Kno's digital
textbook app provides students using an Ultrabook access to the largest digital
textbook selection with over 100,000 titles from more than 45 publishers including Pearson, McGraw - Hill, Macmillan, and Wiley.
Instead they ship with
KNO for educational
textbooks and Amazon for ebooks.
The main idea behind the
Kno, similar to the Entourage Edge is to be aimed specifically at students and to substitute your
textbooks.
The
Kno digital
textbook app is available today for the iPad and Web and will be available for Android tablets and Windows 7 in time for back to school.
Previously only available to college students,
Kno will offer interactive K - 12
textbooks for the iPad, the Web, Android and Windows 7.
Kno currently offers over 200,000
textbooks titles from more than 80 publishers, focusing on making these tools available for the K - 12 public education arena.
Digital
Textbooks are nothing new and companies such as
KNO have been doing it for years.
Just as other ebook users have enjoyed the frenetic pace of other forms of ebook creation, digital
textbook and educational software developer
Kno will unveil a platform today that can bring digital
textbooks to the same speed as other books.
At the onset,
Kno's publishing model allowed parents to purchase inexpensive digital copies of their children's
textbooks, in order to maintain a personal - use library for homework and study.
Kno tablets will enable students to use the tablets as a
textbook, notebook, and research tool all at once.
Digital
textbook companies like CourseSmart and
Kno recently launched innovative, interactive dashboards that help increase student learning outcomes by providing valuable feedback on how students engage with course material, but McGraw - Hill High Education announced today that its launch of such a dashboard is aimed at a very specific demographic of students.SCOREboard, the latest McGraw - Hill platform, is the first of its kind learning tool that helps students prepare for Advanced Placement courses and exams.
Rather than produce digital editions of K through 12thgrade
textbooks for schools to adopt,
Kno makes it possible for parents to purchase digital editions of their children's
textbooks for home or school use.
Kno has partnered with the leading
textbook publishers to offer the world's largest catalog of over 70,000 eTextbooks, at a 30 - 50 % discount off the list price.
«Even if the schools have not adopted digital
textbooks, we wanted to give parents the option to have their kids» same
textbooks available at home,» said Osman Rashid, CEO and Co-Founder of
Kno, Inc. «With digital books priced at $ 9.99 or below, parents can now finally stop their kids from carrying their heavy backpacks to and from school for less than $ 60 for the school year by supplementing classroom materials with interactive
textbooks that can be used at home and on the go.»
From its conception,
Kno has sought to make digital
textbooks affordable and accessible, while still creating dynamic full - featured content.
It began, according to a court filing obtained by Mashable, after Cengage Learning raised concerns over features
Kno adds when it converts publishers»
textbooks to digital format.
The scuffle between the two companies illustrates a vulnerability in businesses like
Kno that convert paper
textbooks to digital
textbooks on behalf of third - party publishers.
Publishing giant Cengage Learning wants to stop selling its titles through digital
textbook seller
Kno, and
Kno — which counts on Cengage material for about a quarter of its sales — is suing for breech of a license agreement.
Just in time for back to school,
Kno announced today that it is now compatible with Android powered devices, specifically that
Kno's K - 12 and higher education
textbooks work nicely on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 on which is comes preinstalled.
Good e-Reader first profiled digital
textbook and software company
Kno when it came to light that the business model for the publisher differed substantially from many academic publishers.
The
Kno platform for Pageburst will mirror the look of a traditional print
textbook and will give students and educators direct access to all - new dynamic and interactive learning tools.
Kno has been a leader in the electronic
textbook market for a number of years and currently has 100,000 of them up for grabs.
At
Kno's recent launch of a dashboard and pricing schedule that makes it possible for parents of public school students to purchase digital editions of their children's
textbooks for no more than $ 9.99 apiece, the iOS platform was the only one able to interact with the K - 12 digital texts.
Kno, Chegg, CourseSmart, Amazon and many others focus on the
textbook market to give diligent young scholars massive savings on the digital versions.
SUNY has partnered with
textbook produce
Kno to bring even more options to the academic landscape for college students this spring by working to... [Read more...]
SUNY has partnered with
textbook produce
Kno to bring even more options to the academic landscape for college students this spring by working to digitize thousands of SUNY press titles.This collaboration means
Kno now works with some of the largest university presses, including Indiana University Press, MIT Press, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, SUNY Press, University of Chicago Press, University of Nebraska Press, University of North Carolina Press, University Press of Mississippi, University of Virginia Darden Business Publishing, and Yale University Press.
Babur Habib, co-founder of educational software and digital
textbook designer
Kno, was on hand at Tools of Change to speak with GoodEReader about its recent launch of the
Kno Advance platform, the anticipated follow up to the earlier release of the
Kno Me interactive learning dashboard.
According to the court filing attained by Mashable
Kno said «
Kno would not be able to replace Cengage's unique
textbook collection by contracting with another
textbook provider.
The reason why Cengage Learning is pulling out is because of new technology
Kno has employed called «Journal,» that allows students to export text from
textbooks with highlights and annotations.
Kno combines the best of a physical
textbook along with more than 70 interactive features, including a Course Manager to organize
textbooks by course, chapter preview to visually navigate pages, and innovative features such as 3D, Smart Links, Journal, Smart Search, and Social Sharing, which are engineered to increase students» learning potential and retain the most important information.
While digital
textbooks are emerging across the globe for students of every educational level, leading educational software company
Kno is already introducing improvements to what the industry already envisions as a quality, fully - interactive e-textbook.
The
Kno's app right now works only on the iPad and the cost of
Textbooks ranges between 30 to 50 percent less than the paperback form of the same.
Cengage is claiming that the ability to augment the
textbook and export text violates the initial agreement and has given
Kno 30 days to rectify the matter.
The GALAXY Note 10.1's advanced S Pen technology makes it the perfect complement to the interactive digital
textbook experience we've created at
Kno.»
The dashboard course manager is a part of each
textbook put out by
Kno.
I still prefer prefer physical
textbooks but I must admit I'm excited about
Kno me, good thing it's also available on android.
Kno's K - 12
textbook rentals last for 1 year and cost $ 9.99 or less.
Users can browse more than 200,000
textbooks on the
Kno webstore and sort their e-books into customizable categories, such as Math and Science.