I don’t personally have an issue with the changes that have been made. It seems like a bit of a drastic shift, but 35% is still definitely reasonable. Also, I have recently been made extremely aware that there have been some pretty significant issues with inkshares users abusing the free credits system, which probably costs the company more money than I can begin to comprehend. I’ve come to really love this community and the mission Inkshares has to bring new authors into an industry that otherwise just doesn’t take much interest in newcomers. On the whole, I get it. I think Inkshares needed to make some changes to stabilize itself financially, and I think they’re taking reasonable steps to that end.
The one thing I do find discomforting is the lack of communication about this. It doesn’t sit particularly well with me that news regarding changes to author royalties didn’t really come to inkshares’s own site until it trickled there through the grapevine from other sources. Usually the Inkshares staff is very open and communicative, and engages directly with the community, which is one of the things I really love about this company. Yet if there was any kind of official announcement about this change on Inkshares itself, I must have missed it. I can’t help but feel like something of this nature should really be brought to our attention more transparently. Again, I don’t have any real issue with the changes that have been made; it’s just the lack of communication that’s bothered me.
Also, @Mike Mongo, you’re too kind. I really hope Tantalus Depths gets a proper chance to not quite win a Hugo award, so you won’t be proven terribly wrong. Aim high, right? :)