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6 Books You Should Read Right Now If You Wanna Get Some Insight Into This Whole “New Media” Thingy

August 7, 2006 by Jim Connelly

Wanna know the philsophical underpinnings of some of our posts here at Medialoper? (I’ll pretend you said “yes.”) The following books have helped me work out some of the concepts that infuse nearly everything that I write about what we are calling the “new media.”

Here they are, alphabetical by author:

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Filed Under: Copyright, Games, Marketing, Mediacratic, Music, Piracy, Publishing, Reviews, Services, Television, The Long Tail Tagged With: books, chris-anderson, Edward-Tenner, John-Alderman, Malcolm-Gladwell, Michael-Lewis, Moneyball, mp3, napster, Steven-Johnson, Tipping-Point

Hollywood’s True Long Tail

August 3, 2006 by Kassia Krozser

In a weird sort of sleight of hand, media analysts reviewing Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail focus on the example of Netflix as both embodiment of the theory and refutation of the impact of long tail revenues. As the Wall Street Journal noted:

The currently popular notion that hits are becoming less important due to the vast reach of cyberspace would strike most Hollywood executives as preposterous. For good or bad, moguls make the opposite assumption. They can be forgiven for doing so; after just three weeks of release, the Pirates of the Caribbean sequel is already Hollywood’s all-time 11th biggest grosser, and No. 63 when adjusted for inflation.

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Filed Under: Mediacratic, The Long Tail Tagged With: box-office, chris-anderson, long-tail, Movies, Pirates-of-the-Caribbean, Television

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