The Long Tail

Chris Anderson writes "I'm the editor of Wired Magazine and if you'll forgive the autohornblowing, I think you'll be interested in my piece in our latest issue. It argues, with a lot of new data, that the entertainment industry is shifting from an era of hit-driven economics to one of niche-driven economics. Content that was once relegated to the fringe, beneath the threshold of commercial viability, is now increasingly able to find a market in distributed audiences, marking a shift towards the previously-neglected Long Tail of the demand curve."

Comments

autohornblowing

[imr]

you'll forgive the autohornblowing
On the contrary, i'm quite impressed by your agility, even jealous.

Re:autohornblowing

[imr]

I'm impressed by your vocabulary, even jealous.

Re:autohornblowing

[Nuclear Elephant]

I'm impressed by your redundancy, even jealous.

wow

[Phixxr]

If I could autohornblow like that, I'd never leave the house...

;)

I'm the editor of weerd magazine and

[GuyFawkes]

I'd like to use s;ashdot to promote / advertise my magazine for free too....

this weeks feature story is "Broadband is faster than modem dial up"

If you're going to post articles here ....

[Tranzor Z]

Can you switch my Wired Magazine subscription to a slashdot subscription, so I can at least read the online articles before everyone else?

Re:The long tail is already here

[Neil Blender]

I would spend hours upon hours trolling every used record store in the Bay Area

How? Were you slipping goatse printouts in the liners?

Re:The long tail is already here

[Anonymous Coward]

It's Wilco. It's Radiohead. It's the Roots. It's thousands of artists you've never heard of and likely never will.

way to be indie.

:giantest rolleyes emoticon evar:

Re:Why?

[jmays]

As you are a 'three-digit', I will honor that answer. ;)

So the moral of the story?

[greg_barton]

Get as much tail as you can!

Thank God ...

[John Jorsett]

At long last I can indulge my cravings for video of dwarf amputee line dancing.

I thought

[smileyy]

I thought Wired was just a write-off vehicle for some company that had millions of gallons of fluorescent and metallic ink on their hands. You mean there's words in that magazine?

Re:demographics and buying habits

[horza]

If people stop buying what the stars are wearing/using and don't respond to peer pressure, then buyers will fragment and the long tail will rise in importance.

Won't happen here in France. When I walk through the streets around 1/2 people are wearing "Von Dutch" t-shirts. I'm seriously considering paying President Chirac or Koffi Annan to wear one in public, in the hope that they will then be considered uncool and consigned to the bin.

Phillip.

Re:More Democratic Market

[Anonymous Coward]

Somehow, "word up" just doesn't cut it.

Dear Mr. Anderson

[confusednoise]

Dear Mr. Anderson

Thanks for posting an article to Slashdot that might possibly be of some interest to those that read it. Of course, the fact that you're the editor of Wired magazine means that many of the holier than thou slashdotters will now take the opportunity to tell you how much they dislike your publication, how irrelevant it is, how many cooler publications they've read etc.

Some may even go so far as to suggest that they have the opportunity to fsck actual chicks with both stolen and non-stolen dicks (see parent above).

God forbid, you may have actually posted this article because you frequent slashdot and thought it might be interesting to those here.