Web entrepreneurs have been relying on the Chris Anderson’s long tail hypothesis even before he published his ideas, so it’s good to see that the academic community has begun to study the effect and test for its existence. The results of the first major study looking for proof of the long tail were announced on Harvard Business Online and were not the endorsement of the long tail that proponents w
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