On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 01:34, Ed Jones <ejones_at_nu.edu> wrote:
> It seems it was a nice theory, but the reality of user behavior-both in
> the legal online music market and the illegal P2P market-paints a
> different picture.
What different picture? The long tail theory came about due to -
amongst other things - increased music sales for items of lower price
outside the promoted peaks, in a way to explore the cultural flow of
items. In fact, libraries have known about this for years, but
unfortunately without telling anyone else about it (or making them
care).
Alex
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