eMusic Data Supports Long Tail
The Long Tail theory has come under heavy fire recently. But eMusic says the critics are wrong and that 75% its indie-only 5 million track catalog sold at least once during 2008.
"eMusic is the Long Tail," said Madeleine Milne, eMusic Managing Director, Europe. The theory that the internet enables businesses to sell a large selection of goods in small quantities to a large population of customers at minimum cost was popularized as the "Long Tail" by Chris Anderson of Wired magazine in 2004.
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let’s get real here, this is one service – a sub-based one, at that! every other serious look at long-tail shows it to be essentially a myth.
btw, i
m an ideie artist with records still in print. i’d LOVE for long-tail to be true. but it ain’t. it’s wishful thinking…
Good for emusic- bad for content producers. only the aggregators make any real money.
well put, bill…
yet when i go to the emusic site i have no idea what it costs without inputting my name/address/email! wtf