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Online course and textbook company Kno announced that it is offering a line of K-12 textbooks. The materials are available for the iPad and web browsers. Native Windows and Android apps are in the queue.

Kno has partnered with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, one of the major textbook publishers in the world. If you browse over to the HMH web site on your iPad (because you want to see how things look), you can find the catalog for each grade and subject area:

If you click Browse, you can see what they have to offer:

Flash doesn't run on an iPad. It also does not run on Android, so that you can't browse the catalog from your Android phone or tablet.

This is not an auspicious beginning for Kno.

Note to Sam's Club: don't display your home page on your iPad display model

While strolling through Sam's Club, I saw the iPad 2 on display, showing the Sam's Club page.

Not only is Adobe Flash Player not available for the iPad, but it probably won't ever be available.
Rule for all retailers: If you're going to demo your page on the iPad, make sure that it works on the iPad.