![]() And the more they find, the more they like. People are going deep into the catalog, down the long, long list of available titles, far past what's available at Blockbuster Video, Tower Records, and Barnes & Noble. Unlimited selection is revealing truths about what consumers want and how they want to get it in service after service, from DVDs at Netflix to music videos on Yahoo! Launch to songs in the iTunes Music Store and Rhapsody. This is not just a virtue of online booksellers it is an example of an entirely new economic model for the media and entertainment industries, one that is just beginning to show its power. The result: rising demand for an obscure book. It created the Touching the Void phenomenon by combining infinite shelf space with real-time information about buying trends and public opinion. A few years ago, readers of Krakauer would never even have learned about Simpson's book-and if they had, they wouldn't have been able to find it. Particularly notable is that when Krakauer's book hit shelves, Simpson's was nearly out of print. More sales, more algorithm-fueled recommendations, and the positive feedback loop kicked in. People took the suggestion, agreed wholeheartedly, wrote rhapsodic reviews. The online bookseller's software noted patterns in buying behavior and suggested that readers who liked Into Thin Air would also like Touching the Void. What happened? In short, recommendations. Now Touching the Void outsells Into Thin Air more than two to one. That same month, IFC Films released a docudrama of the story to critical acclaim. ![]() A revised paperback edition, which came out in January, spent 14 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Booksellers began to promote it next to their Into Thin Air displays, and sales rose further. Random House rushed out a new edition to keep up with demand. Suddenly Touching the Void started to sell again. Jon Krakauer wrote Into Thin Air, another book about a mountain-climbing tragedy, which became a publishing sensation. Then, a decade later, a strange thing happened. It got good reviews but, only a modest success, it was soon forgotten. As Sasuke notes that only Madara was left to be sealed to end the war, Obito simply smirked at their plan as it is revealed he had prevented Madara's control much to the surprise of Naruto, Sasuke and Minato, who had regrouped after witnessing the escape of the Ten-Tails and Obito's transformation as he became the Ten-Tails' jinchūriki.In 1988, a British mountain climber named Joe Simpson wrote a book called Touching the Void, a harrowing account of near death in the Peruvian Andes. With shock, Minato realises that Obito had been the one who orchestrated the destruction of Konohagakure. Minato - having formed a shadow clone himself - teleports to Obito, who was reminiscing about the advice of his former sensei, and cuts him down. Sasuke, riding atop Aoda, begins to slither on the Ten-Tails to get close to Obito, and launches a black arrow only to be retaliated by the chakra receivers jutting out of the latter. Meanwhile, Obito - whose hair was beginning to become thinner, and greyer due to the Outer Path: Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique - begins to reminisce his life as part of Team Minato. As a contingency plan, Hashirama and Tobirama create wood and shadow clones respectively to take on Madara in case it was too late to stop Obito. Noting Madara's intentions, Hashirama tells both Naruto and Sasuke to deal with Obito since they were the closest to him. With Obito's cry resounding throughout the battlefield, Madara muses that he had once told Obito that eventually, he would have to repay the legendary Uchiha for saving his life. ![]() ![]() " The Ten-Tails' Jinchūriki" ( 十尾の人柱力, Jūbi no Jinchūriki) is chapter 637 of the original Naruto manga. ![]()
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