Long Tail Evidence from The App Store

Last week we released 16 of our books as iPhone Apps (and on Saturday added The Twitter Book), and there’s some interesting Long Tail data coming in. We’ve seen Long Tail behavior in the data from Safari Books Online and from Google Book Search, though in this case it’s about geography: even though regions like Colombia, Belgium, and Greece are individually generating a small number of sales, together they add up to more than the total number sold in the US:

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