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

Re:More Democratic Market

[ackthpt]

You are confusing Britney Spears (BS?!) with a musician. She is an entertainer. Nothing more, nothing less.

You could say the same of Frank Sinatra or Bobby Derren. Why does their music have impact and BS doesn't?

interesting article

[ZenBased]

but it would have been a lot more interesting if the author had provided us with some background information. He now makes a lot of statements, but where did he get all this information from?? the idea of the paper is nice though, now it is time to write something a bit more scientific about the subject?