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>30 days ago by Darren, 1 User, more info saveFalling off the end of the Long Tail
"...like all hobbies, it's a rabbit hole. You can not only go as deep as you want, but once you scratch the surface it's all deep. Most of these interests are not only poorly served by traditiona
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveMore Musicians Route Around Music Labels -- Go Direct T ...
"For people who seem to think that their can be no other model for musicians other than signing big record label deals, here's yet another example of why that's wrong." The long tail is a-la
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveGive away the music and sell the show
"Meanwhile, the one thing that you can't digitize and distribute with full fidelity is a live show. That's scarcity economics [...] in an era when digital products are commodities, there's a prem
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveIndie music labels join together to grab a slice of onl ...
"Independent music labels around the world have banded together to create Merlin, a ground-breaking licensing agency that has already signed a major deal to make their artists available in MySpac
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveShould Libraries Ditch The Classics?
"It would really be great if libraries could set themselves up as guardians of an intellectual inheritance, but if no one cares about that inheritance, it's difficult to see how that helps very m
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveDon't quit your day job
"So just to review, that's: A best-selling author and genuine tech celebrity writing a thoughtful essay nearly every workday on a top-50 blog for an audience of around 30,000 people/day. And the
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveCan you make money in the Long Tail?
"Well, it depends who "you" are. If you're an aggregator, sure. But if you're like the majority of Long Tail microproducers, direct revenues can be harder to come by."
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveMore on the Economics of Abundance
"Most truly disruptive technologies disrupt because they take a scarcity assumption and, thanks to some technology that generates abundances, simply turn it on its head. Just think VOIP..."
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveEconomics Of Abundance Getting Some Well Deserved Atten ...
"...the problem that occurs when people focus too hard on the idea that economics is the study of resource allocation in the presence of scarcity. That only makes sense when there's scarcity -- a
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveWhat Happens When Things Get Free?
Transcript/report of Chris 'Long Tail' Anderson's presentation at the Pop!tech conference, over on Worldchanging.
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveUniversal's Long Tail music experiment
"Earlier this week Universal Music released some initial results from its experiment in tapping its deep archives to measure Long Tail demand for older music (European music, in this case)."
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveWelcome to Niche Nation
"[interview with] Long Tail author and Wired editor Chris Anderson on infinite markets, the death of the Top 40, and the birth of personalized politics."
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveThe Long Tail - Signal vs. Noise
37Signals conducts a round-table discussion featuring Chris 'Long Tail' Anderson and a couple of Yahoo execs.
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveSmall sites boosted by search engines too
Good news - it's the Long Tail of search! If you build it, they will come
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveHow a Canadian folk song became a Japanese ringtone
Chris 'Long Tail' Anderson provides a little anecdote that explains the Long Tail concept perfectly.
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveBacklist to the Future
The New York Times talks about the Long Tail as applied to book publishing. Food for thought. Link via DeepGenre.
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save'Long Tail' of music comes to cell phones
"Lots of people would download music to their phones, if they could find something other than Gnarls Barkley, according to one mobile download infrastructure firm." I can't fault the logic o
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveThe Missing Tail
Not everyone is quite so keen on the 'Long Tail' economic model...here is some dissent.
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveThe Rise and Fall of the Hit
Chris 'Long Tail' Anderson takes the pulpit for a three page article at Wired. This is what I've been talking about - the playing field is changing.
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveGOING LONG
Article at the New Yorker that also supports my post from yesterday about the 'long tail' of books. Via Deep Genre.
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveMusic sales falling in the Head, rising in the Tail
In a synchronous happenstance, Chris 'Long Tail' Anderson posts music indusrty figures that back up my post from yesterday.
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveScaling up is good. Scaling *down* is even better.
Chris 'Long Tail' Anderson raps about the new economics, and the success of new business models.
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveBook Scanning Brings Attention To Commercially Neglecte ...
Techdirt talks about the 'long tail' of books in defence of bookscanning
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>30 days ago by diet2, 1 User, more info saveA VC: The Long Tail Of Business Models
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