Good point, I think that boomers (and niche sites that sell for pennies / give stuff away) are the long tail, and that is absent from classic retailers - even Amazon.
There is a good point about how Amazon do have a lot of stuff that just doesn't sell at all though. People still flock to what is popular, basically.
I'm not sure. I think that what it is saying is that, rather than being able to sell low volumes of stuff that you couldn't sell before, in fact you can't. You'll actually just sell a bit more of the stuff you sold very low volumes (or you didn't stock) before, but there's no magic new stuff that sells at low volume on the net.
The tail is indeed getting longer, but isn't growing fat with choice. Instead it is getting both flatter and thinner, filled with ever more products that sell few or no copies.
You are still likely to download and to buy what your peers are into, because of the Harry Potter effect."
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