The Long Tail: How Endless Choice Is Creating Unlimited Demand
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The long tail

 

One of the best books of 2006, "the long tail" explain how and why the digital distribution of contents is changing the way the market works.
...and why and an endless offer is affecting the way we buy and choose things.
Recommended reading!

The Long Tail: How Endless Choice Is Creating Unlimited Demand 

The Long Tail How Endless Choice Is Creating Unlimited Demand

Amazon Price: (as of 10/11/2008)

"The best thing about internet marketing, after fried chicken!"

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Love it! Great read.

BookReview says:

Looks like a great book, just featured it in my Squidlit lens

flaminglacer says:

Couldn't agree more - it should be tattooed on the inside of your eyelids

pososto says:

this is a must read for anyone who wants to actually run a successful business online

Sorry, not my cup of tea.

 
 
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Endless Choice is creating unlimited demand

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Chris Anderson on Wikipedia 

He is the Chairman of a new startup, BookTour.com

Before joining Wired in 2001, he worked at The Economist, where he launched their coverage of the Internet. He also has a degree in physics from George Washington University and did research at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has also worked at the journals Nature and Science.

On October 29, 2007 Chris posted an article to his blog The Long Tail titled [http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2007/10/sorry-pr-people.html Sorry PR people: you're blocked] In this article he listed the email addresses of people who had sent him messages during the month of October and stated that he "was not interested in what they were pitching."

He is currently working on a new book, entitled Free, which examines the rise of pricing models which give products and services to customers for free.The Long Tail: My Next Book: "FREE" The book is set is be released in early 2009.About Me

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