Re: Long tail long for a reason


On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:39:28 +0000, aracari wrote:

On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:47:46 +0000 'John Stubbings'
wrote this on uk.politics.misc:

On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:46:01 +0000, aracari wrote:

On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:14:32 -0000 'DVH'
wrote this on uk.politics.misc:

"The internet was supposed to bring vast choice for customers, access to
obscure and forgotten products - and a fortune for sellers who focused on
niche markets.

But a study of digital music sales has posed the first big challenge to this
"long tail" theory: more than 10 million of the 13 million tracks available
on the internet failed to find a single buyer last year.

The idea that niche markets were the key to the future for internet sellers
was described as one of the most important economic models of the 21st
century when it was spelt out by Chris Anderson in his book The Long Tail in
2006. He used data from an American online music retailer to predict that
the internet economy would shift from a relatively small number of "hits" -
mainstream products - at the head of the demand curve toward a "huge number
of niches in the tail"."

Why? Because the majority of music isn't very good and is unpopular for that
reason. For 50 years, record companies abused their position as owners of
recording and copying machinery to turn out poor product in LP format - 12
songs to an album with singles sales driving everything.

I'm not sure the music industry's experience on the Internet can
be applied to all other industries. I think a lot of odd goods are
sold thru online sites which are difficult to find in shops. That
is certainly one reason I buy online, although prices are not
always lower than a real shop. But there will always be products
which enjoy big sales due to gizmo fashion etc.

Insofar as the music industry...
This confirms my criticism of them ...we were obliged to buy a
whole (overpriced) album just to get 1-2 decent tracks. The rest
are binary padding to fill up the album.

And they wonder why people d/l tracks free.

Truth is people always look for advantage, it natural, not reaction to
something, that lie.

Pathetic excuse for infringement of copyright. Don't want don't buy, no
steal, that just bollocks.

Owners of copyright should protect interest with extreme prejudice.

Only answer for creative people is more aggression not less. I support WGA.
Creative people my friend, make world better place.


So why do socialists spend their time chasing the same old same
old boooooooooring dogma that is no more creative today than it
was 100 years ago?

I see how your creativity shines through...not. You have nothing to
protect.

and I also see how you have no truthful answer, and I cut you down with
'simple sword of truth' properly cleaned after it disgraced by tory scumbag
Aitken...


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