202207162148 - The Long Tail

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for the visually graphed shape of the sales distribution curve: a low nearly interminable line of items selling only a few copies per year that form a long “tail” for the abrupt vertical beast of a few bestsellers.
- But the area of the tail was as big as the head. With that insight, the aggregators had great incentive to encourage audiences to click on the obscure items