Chris Anderson's The Long Tail

Description

Article from Wired chief editor Chris Anderson about describes the phenomenon of "The Long Tail".

The Long Tails describes how the internet and it's effects affect the 80% less important part of the Pareto law. Traditionaly, everyone pays attention to the 20% more "valuable" part of the curve (for example, the 20% of your products generate the 80% of your revenue). In this article, Anderson shows how in firms like Amazon, the long tail (the 80% of products everyone think like less valuable) generate a significant part of the revenue.

Original URL

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html