"The Web is the ultimate marketplace of ideas, governed by the laws of big numbers."

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“A Long Tail is just culture unfiltered by economic scarcity.”

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“Broadly, the Long Tail is about abundance. Abundant shelf space, abundant distribution, abundant choice.”

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