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The second half of the book becomes a little bit bad because the writer tries to explain the proof again and again

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Have good application in the insurance industry where distrbution cost is also so low with negligible inventory

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The book was written so that the average seller of anything could apply it to their business

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This idea branched off his prior written article where he reflects on three major concepts of the long tail 1 the tail of available variety is far longer than we realize 2 its now within reach economically 3 all those niches when aggregated can make up a significant market seemed indisputable especially backed up with heretofore unseen data

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This is where his main point lies that nearly everything can be seen as a long tail distribution with niches within the modern world

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Before internet what you saw in the store was what you got and the selections weren’t that unique from one another but when businesses saw what potential reach the internet had over consumers they jumped on it

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One of the first online was the music industry

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Apple with the ipod was the most iconic to see this trend and act on it and i would say to push what anderson said further in that ipod’s offered more memory than what was previously offered with discman and walkman in that it had memory at all and with the ability to download hundreds of songs onto it the ipod it was a stepping stone in piracy of music which skewed profits within the industry