Please see the following link....

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/...ay-be-no-more/


The Kno was dead on arrival, and never shipped to anyone. In any case it was a gigantic (14" screen) heavy device (although was purportedly available as both a dual screen and a single screen device) that cost a lot, as it was advertised. As this article points out (about a month ago), the company is now developing software for the iPad and Android devices. In my opinion, the Kno was dead before it started because it was too heavily designed only for education (everything about the software organized by courses and semesters etc) thus not friendly outside the education sector.

Further, the problem for it, and other devices (including the eDGe), remains the lack of good content. People are starting to realize that merely providing .pdf files of textbooks is not adequate, nor is it inviting. The market needs specialized content, developed for computing devices. Studying and doing homework from a .pdf file of a textbook is a far different experience from using a paper book. The .pdf may be OK for reading a novel cover to cover (as the success of the Kindle has shown) but a textbook for a course is a very different animal. The best implementation I have seen of that remains books by Inkling (they have a nice free demo for the iPad), which recently got a huge infusion of cash and are developing for medical and MBA curricula in partnership with some major publishers (e.g. McGraw-Hill). Their book are beautiful... and expensive, but have great features to take advantage of reading on a computing device rather than just a .pdf of an exiting text.