Listen and choose the correct options in tasks 1-7. You will hear the recording twice

The previous owner of the bookshop

• worked there for forty years.
• sold the business to the narrator.
• had too many sales assistants.

The narrator believes the Internet

• is very useful.
• is too expensive.
• is difficult to use.

Ten years ago, the narrator

• turned the shop into a café.
• made some changes to the shop.
• wanted to change jobs.

The narrator suggests that

• too much choice can make life difficult.
• paperbacks are better than e-books.
• the size of the device is a disadvantage.

The narrator thinks that e-books

• create more problems than they solve.
• will be more popular than traditional books.
• are unnecessary to readers of traditional books.

The narrator is worried that

• people are not buying CDs.
• people prefer surfing the Net to books.
• people will no longer buy books.

According to the narrator, e-books

• were first sold in Japan.
• may or may not be successful.
• will not be popular one year from now.