Comments on: DVD Station, Powering Long Tail Distribution http://thomashawk.com/2005/06/dvd-station-powering-long-tail.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:04:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Tim http://thomashawk.com/2005/06/dvd-station-powering-long-tail.html/comment-page-1#comment-19687 Tim Wed, 27 Jul 2005 07:45:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=3711#comment-19687 DVDStation has an opportunity to merge the power of both long tail & short head here.<br /><br />They could stock 1 copy of every movie ever made and enable people to just grab and buy. No waiting necessary. In the back, they then just burn a new copy of every sale: a <i>kanban</i> method of shelf stocking.<br /><br />I shudder at the storage requirements, though... DVDStation has an opportunity to merge the power of both long tail & short head here.

They could stock 1 copy of every movie ever made and enable people to just grab and buy. No waiting necessary. In the back, they then just burn a new copy of every sale: a kanban method of shelf stocking.

I shudder at the storage requirements, though…

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