Textbook publishers connect professors, instructors and students in ways that alternatives, such as open e-textbooks and open educational resources, simply do not.

教科书出版商将教授、教师和学生联系在一起，而开放式电子教科书和开放式教育资源等替代方式根本无法做到这一点。

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The bill proposes that before a school could be shut the local authority would have to study alternatives to closure, provide an educational benefit statement, consult for a minimum of six weeks of term time and extend the list of consultees to include school inspectors.

BBC: School closure motives questioned