Digital Musings

So much for the long tail: Call it the Ponzi tail!

Additional evidence on the equation posted last year:

"The recent enthusiasm for the long-tail market does, however, obscure a very basic economic fact: very few writers and independent publishers can survive in the long tail. Amazon can sell millions of books by obscure authors, while at the same time those authors, when they get their Amazon receipts, will see that they have sold only five books in a year."

Erwan Morrison, here

Du livre numérique à la bibliothèque numérique: nouveaux modèles, nouvelles interfaces

Premier brouillon d'un article destiné au prochain livre du GFII sur le livre numérique scientifique et professionnel. C'est ici: Download GFII_Cyberlibris.