An Amazon employee described the long tail as follows: "We sold more books today that didn't sell at all yesterday than we sold today of all the books that did sell yesterday."
Zaposlenik Amazon.coma opisao je "dugi rep" na sljedeći način: "Danas smo prodali više knjiga koje se jučer uopće nisu prodavale, nego što smo danas prodali knjiga koje se jučer jesu prodavale."