Less than zero

The long tail is real, but sometimes the longest parts reach underwater. When there's enough choices, it means that some things will never get picked.

Charles Blow reports in the NY Times that:

"A study last year conducted by members of PRS for

Music, a nonprofit royalty collection agency, found that of the 13

million songs for sale online last year, 10 million never got a single

buyer and 80 percent of all revenue came from about 52,000 songs.

That's less than one percent of the songs."