I listened to the audiobook of "The Long Tail" and maybe I misunderstood it. I thought it was showing how the internet can lead to better choices for consumers

I listened to the audiobook of "The Long Tail" and maybe I misunderstood it. I thought it was showing how the internet can lead to better choices for consumers and give an outlet for niche content creators to sell their wares. In my mind it's done both. If it acts as a rising tide, lifting the fortunes of the head as well as the tail, all the better. There are big winners among sites, like YouTube, but there also are niche winners like TechCrunch which has done very well against big media companies by finding its niche. Not to mention places like Hacker News which I visit far more often then TechCrunch and YouTube combined.