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As we reported back in April, it would not be long before Kno provided a solution for cheap textbooks. We didn’t have to wait long as they today announced the Kno textbook app for the iPad.  In case you forgot, Kno is the run by CEO Osman Rashid, one of the founder’s of the textbook rental juggernaut Chegg.  Kno originally developed a dual-screen tablet for electronic textbooks, but abandoned that effort a few months ago in search of a different solution for providing cheap textbooks.  However, with the huge success of the iPad and growing Android tablet market the company decided it might be best to leave hardware to the experts.

Kno Textbook App the solution for Cheap Textbooks?

The Kno textbook app is an impressive first effort that even comes with a 15 day money back guarantee.  Among the highlighted features:

1. A catalog of over 70,000 textbooks at discounts of 30-50%
2. Course Manager – Quickly organize your textbooks and materials all in one organized space
3. Chapter Preview – A quick method to find the content you wish as an attempt to duplicate flipping through a regular textbook
4. The ability to highlight content and create sticky notes
5. Words to Friends – Share your thoughts with your social network directly from within your etextbook

Kno is offering their app as a free download and monetizing the effort by having extextbooks purchased from the Kno textbook store.  Kno is offering a free textbook to those that participate in the Early Bird Program – simply like them on Facebook through the link, participate in their product feedback discussion, and they will refund you the purchase price of one electronic textbook after completion of the program.

The Kno textbook app allows a user to organize digital textbooks and PDFs into courses through an easy to use drag and drop interface.  The Chapter Preview features allows quick flipping through the pages of the digital textbook to facilitate quick finding of desired material akin to flipping to through the pages of a printed textbook – of course, there is a search feature as well.  Users can highlight whatever they wish and add sticky notes as well.  Furthermore, a Wiki or Web search can be launched from within the textbook app from a highlighted word.

However, the novel feature of Kno’s textbook app is wonderfully called “WTF”, or rather “Words to Friends”.  WTF allows users to send out “study messages” to to their social network friends on Twitter of Facebook.  However, the study message is not currently linked back to the originally highlighted text and it is not easy to cut and paste either – so WTF indeed   It is still a much better way to stay awake and entertained in class versus texting on your cellphone or keeping a comic book in your biology textbook.

Kno textbook app features WTF

Head on over to the Kno website and check out their textbook app to see if you think it is the solution for cheap textbooks.

Kaplan Publishing has decided to extend the free trail of 21 titles of various eBooks of their very successful Free Back-to-School promotion on Apple’s iBookstore.

1. Kaplan ACT Strategies for Super Busy Students
2. Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Dictionary
3. Sharp Vocab
4. Sharp Writing
5. Kaplan Portable GMAT
6. Kaplan Portable GRE Exam
7. Kaplan PMBR: Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE)
8. Kaplan PMBR Finals: Constitutional Law
9. Kaplan MCAT Organic Chemistry Review
10. Kaplan MCAT Biology Review
11. Kaplan NCLEX-RN 2010 -2011 Edition
12. Kaplan CCRN
13. Kaplan101 Algebra Practice Questions
14. Kaplan 101 ASVAB Practice Questions
15. Kaplan101 GRE Quantitative Practice Questions
16. Kaplan 101 GRE Verbal Practice Questions
17. Kaplan 101 MAT Practice Questions
18. Kaplan 101 PSAT/SAT Critical Reading Practice Questions
19. Kaplan101 Biology Practice Questions
20. Kaplan 101 SAT/PSAT Writing Practice Questions
21. Kaplan 101 GMAT Verbal Practice Question

Maureen McMahon, President and Publisher said, “The immediate response and benefits of this promotion have exceeded our expectations and we wanted to give more students a chance to try our eBooks risk-free.”

Visit www.kaplanpublishing.com/itunes on your iPad, iPod, iPod Touch, or anyway to access the iBooks app to enjoy all of these great titles for free.

eCampus.com Textbook Giant Announces Daily Student Sweepstakes For The Upcoming Back To School Season

Lexington, KY (Vocus) August 10, 2010

eCampus.com, a leading web textbook retailer, launches a Student Sweepstakes giving away every day prizes to customers and students this fall to consumers renting or purchasing textbooks on the web.

As the leading textbook on the web company for college students, eCampus.com is offering a exclusive sweepstakes, giving away a 16GB Apple Ipad, Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect, an eCampus.com branded Motorized Cooler Scooter and other gifts with daily drawings. Each and every student who buys or rents a new/used textbook or etextbook for this fall semester will be entered to win.

“We are usually attempting to show our appreciation to our clients,” said Matt Montgomery, President and CEO of eCampus.com.  “We want students to know that we are trying to maintain them from being broke. With the costs of textbooks rising, we are the very best choice for college students to get their textbooks simple, quickly and low-cost.”

eCampus.com offers students with superb service for a broad range of college campuses nationwide. eCampus.com provides college and high school students the capability to rent textbooks, purchase used or new textbooks, etextbooks and a student marketplace. Students save much more dollars with eCampus.com simply because eCampus.com offers much more textbooks and textbook getting possibilities than any person else.

In addition, textbook rental allows students to cut costs significantly every single semester. Instead of buying multiple books, students can rent textbooks and send them back with totally free shipping when the semester ends. It’s straightforward, quickly and low cost.

ABOUT eCAMPUS.COM

eCampus.com was established on July 2, 1999. Since then, eCampus.com has grown into a main online retailer offering cheap textbooks for college and high school textbooks. eCampus.com’s mission is to supply the easiest, fastest, cheapest way for college and university students to purchase textbooks, rent textbooks and sell textbooks. eCampus.com believes the Internet buying expertise must be enjoyable and shopping for textbooks must be as quickly and convenient as achievable. The firm makes a personal commitment to every single customer that eCampus.com will be the finest source for everything they want.