Unit 193 Part A

16    The influence of the trainer among fashion's new shoes still remains strong.
17    You could say that ready-to-wear designers have had their eyes on the trainer …
18    ever since it became cool to wear trainers to the office.
19    But with so many designers moving into the futuristic footwear market,
20    the top sports brands might just have reason to worry!
21    It's all the more surprising when you consider the sheer wealth of titles available online.
22    If the book you want is out of print, some firms will consult …
23    their network of retail suppliers or their stockists of old titles for you.
24    But like most forms of electronic commerce, book-buying on the Web looks appealing …
25    but is not very convincing in practice.
26    For the serious reader, nothing replaces the pleasure of opening a book at random …
27    and falling under the spell of its first few lines!
28    The scale of this success is a hundred times greater than anything I could have dreamed of.
29    I was asked to do two songs for the soundtrack of a new film,
30    and the equipment gave a new momentum to my song writing.
31    It's not so long since money was really tight for me,
32    and nobody much was listening to my music.