A Startup Tries to Turn the Page

摘要

The office walls of Kno, a Santa Clara (Calif.) startup that wants to bring the e-book revolution to college textbooks, are filled with signs containing playful puns on its name: "Kno it All," "Good to Kno." Lately though, the mood around the company hasn't been particularly lighthearted. Kno raised $80 million in venture capital in 2009 and 2010, but tried to do one of the hardest things in Silicon Valley: create consumer hardware from scratch.