Comments on: MP3 Sales: Another nail for the long tail? http://neilcocker.com/2008/12/23/mp3-sales-another-nail-for-the-long-tail/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:50:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Neil Cocker http://neilcocker.com/2008/12/23/mp3-sales-another-nail-for-the-long-tail/#comment-45 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:48:00 +0000 http://neilcocker.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/mp3-sales-another-nail-for-the-long-tail/#comment-45 Thanks for your comments guys.

Jane, I’ll definitely look at that centripetal web. Not something I’d come across before. And yes, i agree that things will always be available (the cost of everything being available is so marginal), but probably harder to find.

Wayne. Yeah, very true. But I suppose they’re looking at it from an economic point of view. And those P2P downloads etc won’t be contributing to the artists’ income etc. But for those in the long tail, maybe they don’t care as much about revenue as those in the “head”…

]]> By: Wayne http://neilcocker.com/2008/12/23/mp3-sales-another-nail-for-the-long-tail/#comment-44 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:46:00 +0000 http://neilcocker.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/mp3-sales-another-nail-for-the-long-tail/#comment-44 The study may be flawed in that it may have only looked at the formal (or legal if you prefer) methods of distribution. I suspect that a lot of people who are interested in the lesser known work use P2P etc. and avoid the corporates.

]]> By: Jane http://neilcocker.com/2008/12/23/mp3-sales-another-nail-for-the-long-tail/#comment-43 Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:58:00 +0000 http://neilcocker.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/mp3-sales-another-nail-for-the-long-tail/#comment-43 Interesting indeed… have you come across the theory of the centripetal web? Basically argues that despite the web providing a platform for all sorts of obscure things that would otherwise never see the light of day, increasingly the web is coalescing into giant metropolises (or whatever the plural is!) of Google and Amazon and the like, and the obscure things are getting pushed right back to the fringes. So maybe what we’re seeing is the web moving into maturity after an adolescent period of anarchy? I don’t think we’re in danger of no longer having everything available, just it won’t necessarily be so easily stumbled across if you’re not already looking for it specifically.

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