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Set of data on digital music sales appears to point more to the old 80/20 rule than towards Chris Anderson's long tail. Especially surprising is a very large set of titles that never sell in a digital space.
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John Bracken's picks for influential writing about the media in 2008. Some great stuff in here, lots of links worth following.
Ethan,
This “long tail contradicted” study by Will Page shouldn’t necessarily be taken at face value. Benoit Felten has blogged a critique here: http://www.fiberevolution.com/2008/11/cutting-the-long-tail-short.html
and Chris Anderson himself has jumped in
http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2008/11/more-long-tail.html
For starters, Will Page does not reveal the source of the data he analyzed . . .
David I
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