Posts Tagged as ‘the long tail’

June 19, 2008

Will the Economy Shorten the Long Tail?

In his book, “The Long Tail,” Chris Anderson argues that our culture and economy is shifting away from a focus on a small number of mainstream “hits,” and moving towards a large number of niche products that lengthen the tail of the demand curve.  One needs to only examine Amazon.com to see how the digital [...]