links for 2008-12-27
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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.
January 4th, 2009 at 11:16 am
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