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The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More

Chris Anderson

The New York Times bestseller that introduced the business world to a future that’s already here—now in a new edition with a new chapter about Long Tail Marketing and a new epilogue.Winner of the Gerald Loeb Award for Best Business Book of the YearIn the most important business book since The Tipping Point, Chris Anderson shows how the future of commerce and culture isn’t in hits, the high-volume head of a traditional demand curve, but in what used to be regarded as misses—the endlessly long tail of that same curve.

Business & EconomicsBusiness & Economics · medium confidenceBusiness & Economics81 signalsLlm Classifier: Business & Economics -> Business & EconomicsAward Category: FT Business Book of the Year -> Business & EconomicsKeyword Classifier: Business & Economics -> Business & EconomicsBusiness, Capitalism & CorporationsHousing, Cities & Urban Life

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
FT Business Book of the YearMajor2006ShortlistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

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  2. 02 Central places

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  3. 03 Suggested argument

    The future of commerce and culture is not in high-volume hits, but in the endlessly long tail of previously overlooked demand.

    Model confidence 78%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 86%.