Kno is one of the companies that provides electronic versions of textbooks. They add a lot of extra material and value to the textbook in the process of converting it to electronic form. That means that they have fewer books at this point than other such providers, but they expect to ramp up quickly over the next year or so.
I just got this email that offers one free Kno textbook to anyone with an educational email address (.edu) who signs up on Kno.com<http://Kno.com/>. I haven't tried it yet, but I expect to. I do have the Kno app on my iPad and have a number of sample chapters from various textbooks and they look great!
If you are using a textbook in their list, or Kno has a textbook in your discipline that your students might use as a second source, I encourage you to share this with your students. It ends either when they decide they have given away enough or by 12/31/2011, so check soon and send them an email via Blackboard. You can get to your spring courses from the "All Courses" sub tab, part of the "Blackboard" tab group.
Bill Vilberg
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From: "CEO of Kno" <o.rashid@kno.com<mailto:o.rashid@kno.com>>
Subject: Hey , wanted to connect
Date: December 7, 2011 7:22:38 PM EST
To: bill.Vilberg@gmail.com<mailto:bill.Vilberg@gmail.com>
Reply-To: o.rashid@kno.com<mailto:o.rashid@kno.com>
Hello ,
You have been a dearly valued customer to us and we wanted to share something a bit crazy with you. For this Spring term, instead of spending $10 million dollars on a big advertising campaign, we thought it would be better spent by giving you and hundreds of thousands of other students a free eTextbook.
We truly believe that students and professors are the drivers for how technology will change education and the world at large. We aren't asking for any commitments from you, no purchases to get a free eTextbook from us. All we ask, at your own discretion is for you to sign up at Kno.com<http://app.bronto.com/public/?q=ulink&fn=Link&ssid=18696&id=jb1l4175txeyn8h1th8gu5qv2jyu1&id2=kj7ro5pyqt1zepg1isl0w3nk90pju&subscriber_id=bvbjebtwdltjdnieposyjoxkxsewbeh&delivery_id=bufeghqlhytepzvxqqlqktvrljkrbig&tid=3.SQg.Bn3Wig.Bzam.SWoz..pN6D.b..l.A4Rg.a.TuBJng.TuBJng.hp-T-Q> with your .EDU email address (so we know you're a student) and to please share this offer with your friends.
We realize some of you may have already signed up, and in any case, thank you and please continue to spread the word.
http://www.kno.com<http://app.bronto.com/public/?q=ulink&fn=Link&ssid=18696&id=jb1l4175txeyn8h1th8gu5qv2jyu1&id2=6zcsv9su7max7aclcfwubk5vxyaxj&subscriber_id=bvbjebtwdltjdnieposyjoxkxsewbeh&delivery_id=bufeghqlhytepzvxqqlqktvrljkrbig&tid=3.SQg.Bn3Wig.Bzam.SWoz..pN6D.b..l.A4Rg.a.TuBJng.TuBJng.hp-T-Q>
Thanks for driving change!
Osman Rashid
Founder & CEO, Kno Inc.
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