The blog post by John Galvin, Intel Vice President of the Sales and Marketing Group at Intel Corporation and general manager of the World Ahead Program, sparked interest regarding the Intel acquisition of the Kno Inc. TechCrunch was the first to discuss the implications of the purchase.
Kno Inc was founded in 2009 and has slowly become a dominant player in etextbooks. Kno provides digital textbooks from over 80 publishers – except the digital textbooks are not simple copies of paper based products. Instead, the company enhances the content to include interactive multimedia and social sharing tools.
