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Jeff's review of The Long Tail: How Endless Choice Is Creating Unlimited Demand

The Long Tail: How Endless Choice Is Creating Unlimited Demand The Long Tail: How Endless Choice Is Creating Unlimited Demand
by Chris Anderson (Goodreads author)
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I'm not entirely sure that this needed to be a book. The original article was interesting. Anderson gave a name to a phenomenon that a lot of people intuited was happening, and he provided solid numbers to back up that intuition. While the book expands on the original article, I don't think it improves on it. While I know Anderson did quite a bit of additional research for the book, it feels like the results are a number of fairly obvious examples that support his initial thesis. Nothing earth shattering here.

All in all, I'm glad I only paid 99p for this at an Oxfam. I would have felt cheated otherwise.
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message 1: by Justin (new)
11/20/2008 03:54PM

1220649 "solid numbers" seems to be a little incorrect... see the recent debunkings eg http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/18/...



message 2: by Jeff (new)
11/21/2008 12:38AM

145025 Interesting. Sounds like it's his conclusions, rather than his data, that is being questioned here. Of course, that seems to be based on new, more comprehensive data.


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