Bliss English Club

Hi Blissers,

Last week, Vicky talked about how Amazon affects book business. A decade ago, when you wanted to buy a book, you would go to physical store and if it gave you 10% discount, you would satisfy with it. But, now many people go to physical store to check the book and buy it online. Meanwhile, you can get more discounts. Therefore, sales of adult paperbacks and hardcovers fell 18 percent between 2010 and 2011. We discussed this. Some members like me will buy books online now or borrow books from library. Some members are afraid the physical stores will close, so they buy books from them to support it. Vicky also told us publisher’s and author’s viewpoint. Publishers hate Amazon because the book price in Amazon is lower than theirs and Amazon still earns money. But, authors like Amazon because publishers only pay them about 10% sale price, but Amazon give them 20%, 30% or more. In addition, we seldom see a small book store in Taiwan, but there are a lot in Europe, why? The answer is “fixed price”. In order for small and independent book stores to survive, many countries have “fixed price” for books. In other words, the same book will have the same price in different types of book stores so that the small store can earn money from books. In the end, do you know what Amazon logo means? There is a yellow arrow in the bottom of Amazon logo and shows “A to Z”. It indicates that they do have all types of goods. Thanks Vicky for sharing the article with us.

The participants are Neihsin, Ellen, Karl, Barkley, Allan, Kevin Cheng, Selina, Joe Kao, Fox, Cara, Angela and Daniel.

Meeting picture is here.

In the coming Saturday, Jessica Yang is the host and here is her meeting outline and agenda.

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Topic: oratorical skill

Dear Blisser,

Besides to know “The Table Manner” in order to have good attitude in the public place, learning “Wine Taste” skill to build up you relationship, how about to cultivate your oratorical ability to make you become a welcome person?

So

*Have you even spill out wrong word to fail the conversation?

*Have you ever tongue tie when you join in the new group?

*Have you ever have difficulty to say “No” when you’re unwilling to join the party? Or you don’t want answer the personal questions?

*Do you have good sense of humor?

14:00 - 14:15 Introduction
14:15 -15:00 How to make up words or sentence.

How can you have appropriate conversation when you meet new friend.

How to say “NO” smoothly

1500 - 15:30 classic example &practice
15:30 -15:40 break time
15:40 -16:30 How to cultivate good sense of humor

How to delivery joke any time

16:30 - 17:00 classic example & practice

17:00 - 17:30 joke and reaction ability completion

BRs
Jessica

Daniel