Who cares? Inkshares has non-exclusive rights. The moment you are published, you can get picked up from different mediums. It doesn’t mean you won’t be fond of Inkshares or even still have an Inkshares imprint on your novel.
Some authors are going to toss their hats in with Inkshares and use it for everything. Some are going to get their book printed by Inkshares, and then someone else, and then someone else, and so on, and so forth.
Good for both them!
Crowd Funding isn’t for everyone. Furthermore: Any author can do what they want with their creative content. People can react to what the author did or did not do as well.
Inkshares is a platform. One that is getting better with each passing month, and is still a different kind of publisher. You won’t see large 20,000 initial print runs and traditional publishing here because that’s not their model. Inkshares can do more direct publisher to consumer sales and even act as a hub for rights distribution.
But if an author came to Inkshares, got published, and then another publishing house also wanted to print that book: It’s perfectly fine AND it’s right there in the terms of service.
So you can’t cry spilled milk just because someone else got an offer that may or may not be there. All you can do is be positive about your own work.
