The long tail

The long tail by Mr Chris Anderson, the editor-in-chief at Wired Magazine. Anderson has studied virtual stores like Amazon and Netflix active retailers on the Internet. His keyfinding the concept of the long tail is a focus of the tail in an ordered frequency diagram. The future is not the blocbuster monster hits when you are selling goods on the net, if it is virtual products in the form of bits it’s for sure. When the stock and distribution costs are very low you can focus to sell music, movies, applications and other media products that are not among the top 1000. The nisched products that sell in extremly small amount are on the other side enourmosly many. Apple iTunes could benefit and make profit on 1.000.000+ tunes.
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jens lapidus book aldrig fucka upp

JENS LAPIDUS second book called “Aldrig fucka upp” [Never Fucking Up] was released the other day
Mr Lapidus, Swedens best dressed up man, has started his own company where he takes on clients in the crime sector.
Wahlström & Widstrand is the publishers.

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big book sale

THE YEARLY BOOK SALE starting at Tuesday 26 february. Åhlens and Klackenberg have special catalogues and open as early as 07:00 AM. I must recomend the book "Så funkar fotboll" [Understanding Soccer] by Ola Andersson. Only EUR 4.9 a must have for the soccereneur/fotballeneur.
"For everybody that are interested in understanding more of the thinking behind the play" (panorsted.se)

Nobel Lecture

Nobel Lecture in Litterature at the Swedish Academy, Källargränd 4, 5:30 p.m. This event is a part of the Nobel Week. Press Conference regarding the Nobel Week at the Nobel Foundation, Sturegatan 14, 1:00 p.m.

Bodil Malmsten

The Author the several times book prize awarded Bodil Malmsten is, as far as I know not a relative to the guitar player Yngvie Malmsteen if you want to know. Bodil Malmsten was born in Norrland and moved down to Stockolm. For several years she lived in Vallingby, a place she describes and relates to in several pasages in the book i have studied, called My papers are still in a mess. She writes about: her living in France, life in Stockholm, authors like Thomas Bernhard, Samuel Beckett, social change in privatization, shopping malls, bus traveling in Wales, getting layed in Hagsatra suburb as teen, visiting the library in Vallingby that she claim has saved her life from using heavy drugs at lofts at Angermannagatan, the main street of Vallingby. She also writes on raketost (a special brand of cheese) and the love of oranges. And she claims that books are the great memory of the world. Malmsten is a blogger and runs her own publishing corporation, Finistere. 18 december she will draw her signature in her books at Akademibokhandeln Master Samulesgatan in Stockholm.

Bookday with the Professor

This Saturday 10 November I declare as Vix Book Day with the sub theme bike hikeing. I have studied the book Hiking in the Rocky Mountains from Lonely Planet Publishing corporation. What could be more relaxing than take a ride on your mountain bike in the nature with some packing on your back and sit down and rest reading a book drinking hot coffee or tea with a sandwich.

Prof. Leif GW Persson is working as a criminology professer at the Police Accademy of Stockholm and is also a famous thriller writer here in Sweden. He is visiting the local bookstore Klackenberg today signing his latest book. He has latele been in a controversy with a female criminal author Läckberg declaring that she write in style/manner of little girls horse books like "Min Häst" (My Horse).

Alexander Bard’s Netocrazy

Netocracy: The new power elite and life after capitalism, is available as an eBook distributed by eLib 2004. The book is written by Alexander Bard and Jan Soderqvist. The main author is the famous and awarded musician Alexander Bard from powerpop bands BWO, Vacuum and Army of Lovers. By the way Alexander and his friends are using laptops on their live performances as laptopartists. Now over to the eBook. Netocrazy describes life in a new class society in a post-capitalistic era. The national state is erodating and new unclear rules are valid. The ways people percepting and understanding the world and democrazy are changeing. A digital revolution is transforming society in a brutal way.

In order to make the right decisions enought relevant information is needed. Netocrazy is a concept developed by the editiors of Wire Magazine used instead of an emerging digital upper class. Power is based upon technology, networking etc. in a creative urban class. The antithesis and negational field of the dicotomy is the consumtariat.

The book is also available in paper format in english from Reuters, London. [trans. N. Smith]
Bard, A. (2004) Netocrazy Stockholm: Pocky/Tranan/eLib [eBook]