tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467549889510324132.post6426305283516249337..comments2024-03-29T01:51:40.380-05:00Comments on Pretentious Title: Writing Wednesday: The Long Tail -- What Happens When Nothing Happens?Rachel Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917123007610750274noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467549889510324132.post-62759731398615750752016-08-04T13:31:28.992-05:002016-08-04T13:31:28.992-05:00Awesome Post Thanks For it Amazing Site
Long Tail ...Awesome Post Thanks For it Amazing Site<br /><a title="Long Tail Pro Free" href="http://www.azeemonline.com/2016/07/long-tail-pro-free-download-platinum.html" rel="nofollow">Long Tail Pro Free</a><br />Adminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18427107840628620914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467549889510324132.post-48822777556151481722016-02-03T09:14:51.110-05:002016-02-03T09:14:51.110-05:00@William I agree with you that it this is about sa...@William I agree with you that it this is about sales decay rate and not about the classic economists' definition of the long tail concept. I did things this way because when I run into this concept on say, other author business blogs, this is how its used - talking about the sales generated over time by a book, series, or career. Modern indie publishing seems to be much more concerned with the statistical (calculus really IMO) version of the long tail and how it affects us.<br /><br />Great comment btw! Thanks!Travis Bachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02462838657483444088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467549889510324132.post-81734128285321347032016-01-31T00:29:34.984-05:002016-01-31T00:29:34.984-05:00I was a little bit surprised to see you say there ...I was a little bit surprised to see you say there were no good examples of the long tail applied to publishing, because Chris Anderson wrote the book <i>The Long Tail</i> specifically written about book and music sales, and he talks a lot about book sales at Amazon. A short summary of The Long Tail theory here: http://www.longtail.com/about.html <br /><br />An updated version of the 2004 article that originally introduced the concept of the long tail is here: http://changethis.com/manifesto/show/10.LongTail<br /><br />Then as I read further into your post, I realized you were talking about the slope of sales over time. Woops, wrong long tail.<br /><br />In statistics, the long tail refers to a power law distribution, as described in the wikipedia article. <br />In business, the long tail usually refers to the distribution of sales in an industry. As Chris Anderson describes it:<br /><br />The theory of the Long Tail is that our culture and economy is increasingly shifting away from a focus on a relatively small number of "hits" (mainstream products and markets) at the head of the demand curve and toward a huge number of niches in the tail. As the costs of production and distribution fall, especially online, there is now less need to lump products and consumers into one-size-fits-all containers. In an era without the constraints of physical shelf space and other bottlenecks of distribution, narrowly-targeted goods and services can be as economically attractive as mainstream fare.<br /><br />I think the better term to describe the gradual decline in sales for a given author over time is sales decay rate, which I think is widely understand in the business world. <br /><br />The long tail (as commonly used to describe distribution of sales) has huge implications for indie publishers because how we can distribute and market to niche audiences, but that's very different from the decay rate of sales over time (also very important, but for different reasons).<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15104795180569290637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467549889510324132.post-16821352975226228102016-01-29T13:09:40.566-05:002016-01-29T13:09:40.566-05:00We've found create space to be relatively pain...We've found create space to be relatively painless to use but pricing is an issue. We are still not too happy that NDFL print is $13.99, but its very hard to bring that number down.Travis Bachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02462838657483444088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467549889510324132.post-65565873517807894612016-01-29T13:08:11.875-05:002016-01-29T13:08:11.875-05:00Thanks for spotting that. Fixed.Thanks for spotting that. Fixed.Travis Bachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02462838657483444088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467549889510324132.post-7493029995534622992016-01-28T12:06:32.514-05:002016-01-28T12:06:32.514-05:00All good stuff! I always enjoy Travis articles wit...All good stuff! I always enjoy Travis articles with all the numbers. Now you've got me pondering turning all my books into paperbacks ...Kessiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15019626781634777336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467549889510324132.post-20626413505608040262016-01-27T22:58:00.282-05:002016-01-27T22:58:00.282-05:00The link to rachelaaron.net is spelled wrongThe link to rachelaaron.net is spelled wrongSamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02198413323981763068noreply@blogger.com