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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One of the most significant applications for the iPad may be Apple’s own creation, called iBooks, an e-reading program that will connect to Apple’s new online e-bookstore.

其中最具意义的ipad应用将是苹果公司自己开发的称为iBooks的电子书阅读程序，它将会连接上苹果的新的网上阅读书店。

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Google Doesn't Know How to Connect People, says Tom Coates in the Fortune article: "Google is very good at building these utility-type products — search, E-mail, and messaging."

Google不知道如何把人们联系起来，Tom Coates在财富杂志写道：“Google在构建效用性产品方面做得很好——搜索，电子邮件，发送消息。”

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Because e-readers connect to the Internet, the works they contain can be revised remotely, just as software programs are updated today.

WSJ: Nicholas Carr on E-Books

Currently you can't use an e-ticket to connect with a flight on a different carrier, because the airlines' computers cannot communicate with each other.

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There are also news reports that suggest Sina is closely testing a new product, which allows e-commerce players to connect with their followers on Weibo.

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