Image via WikipediaJust this Friday, Kno textbook app was released in the app store for iPad, this means discounted textbooks are now more convenient to get for the students. As the app description section in the app store states, Kno app is offering customers “the world’s largest selection of over 70,000 titles at 30-50% off the list price.” This 30 to 50 percent discount on the total price of the expenses of text books can mean a lot of money for a college student. The app is enrolled with already a full textbook and PDF reader with full integration. Additionally, the package contains a course manager, which is a feature that will allow the users to easily sort out their textbooks to keep them classified according to their courses and term. Moreover, miscellaneous features like the one-touch text highlighting, annotation capabilities, and the ability to “ask questions, post comments or share your location with study buddies,” are the selling points mentioned regarding the app in the Apple App Store listing.
This unique feature of sharing, commenting and questioning with the study buddies is given the title of “WTF” i.e. Words to Friends. This feature was reviewed minutely by TechCrunch and it found it did not really it to be working that well in its current form. The app has only be released a short while back, so out of the total 18 reviews it had gotten so far on the App Store, 11 of them gave full five stars rating to the app. Though one of those reviewers also identified that, despite the app was good, it is still a little too slow and laggy.
It was announced, earlier in 2010, that Kno is planning to soon launch its own line of tablets. This line was reportedly going to start off with a large two-screen version device, of which both the screens would have been 14.1-inches long with a 1,400×900 resolution. This news eroded the market, but later in February last year, Kno declared that it is changing its priorities and has kept the hardware business aside, while focusing more on its software development.
Though the project was not completely discontinued, rumors regarding the Kno tablets also surfaced in April, stating that the chip-maker Intel and Advance Capital have taken over the design and production of the tablets. Both the companies allegedly invested around $30 million in this joint endeavor, though no official confirmation of these rumors ever came to light.
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