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The Long Tail - Wired Blogs
I've been struggling to come up with a pithy definition of the Long Tail, something longer than a bumper sticker and shorter than an elevator pitch. So I'm going to give it a few goes here and perhaps you, the wise participants in this conversation, can tell me which resonates most (note: some of these are my own, others are stolen from other people's attempt to define it). Pithy construction and TypePad layout flexibility allowing, I may offer the winner a permanent place...
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The Long Tail - Wired Blogs
January 21, 2008
"The fat tail will be human, the medium tail social, the long tail algorithmic"
Jeff Jarvis is liveblogging a DLD panel discussion between Jimmy Wales ( Wikia ) and Jason Calacanis ( Mahalo ), with Marissa Meyer (Google) in the front row. They're discussing human-driven search (Mahalo and Wikia) vs. algorithmic search (Google). And then...
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The Long Tail - Wired Blogs
eMusic data contradicts UK study
[From my inbox this morn, data contradicting the Will Page analysis ]
"eMUSIC SALES DATA SUPPORTS "LONG TAIL² CONCEPT
Approximately 75% of Tracks Sold In 2008
Catalogue Crosses Five Million
NEW YORK and LONDON, Jan. 15, 2009 eMusic, the world's largest retailer of
independent music and the first to sell DRM-free MP3s in Europe, today
announced that approximately...
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The Long Tail - Wired Blogs
The Long Tail article (and the forthcoming book) is about the big-picture consequence of this: how our economy and culture is shifting from mass markets to million of niches. It chronicles the effect of the...
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The Long Tail - Wired Blogs
Posted by: Luiz Augusto | July 18, 2009 at 01:26 PM
Luiz,
There is a downloadable version for the Kindle (US only). But no plans for a PDF, at my publisher's request.
Posted by: Chris Anderson | July 18, 2009 at 03:41 PM
Chris, I just finished the audiobook, which I downloaded from itunes to my iphone. I enjoyed listening to it upon awaking in the morning, and while driving (much better than radio). I must admit that in a moment of impatience, I almost gave up while you went over the history of "zero" while I was on the elliptical trainer at the gym and wanted a more practical treatment of "Free" and how I can incorporate it...
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