听力原文：W: Good evening, Mr. Brown, and welcome to the program. M: Thank you! W: I wonder if you could tell listeners more about the work you do? M: Certainly. W: Mr. Brown, I gather that you work for a company developing software for reading electronic books? M: That is so. W: Do you think there is much future in that7 M: Well, people buy music online—so why not books? W: You have to read electronic books on a machine, don't you? M: That is so, although of course you might be able to print them out on a printer. W: .So why should people read a book on an expensive machine when they can buy a cheap copy and carry it around with them and read it whenever they like? M: That is an interesting point. People need time to become aware of the value of e-books. W: Is it true that at the Frankfurt Book Fair, in 2000,there was a prize for the best books published in electronic form? M: Yes, that is true: the prize was worth $ 100,000. W: Who put up the money for the prize? M: Err, software companies such as Microsoft and Adobe. W: I suppose they are trying to encourage publishers to get the e-book business off the ground. M: That's probably true. (26)