Monday, March 23, 2009

The Vanishing Niche

Here's more evidence that the big online distributers are increasingly turning away from niche business, in this case via recommender systems. This is not a good development for new music.

Posted by Daniel Wolf at 7:12 PM

1 comments:

Adam Baratz said...

To be a little more precise, the problem is not with all automated recommendation, but with a particular kind of recommender (those that use collaborative filtering). One of my co-workers recently gave a talk at SXSW about this and related problems.

8:56 PM

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