I hope the OP’s (and therefore also my) question itself isn’t being taken as some kind of attack on Inkshares because it’s truly not - and I’m sure Adam (as a lawyer himself) and the Inkshares staff, when they get back from the weekend, won’t take it that way. 

Asking a question about a change to the legal terms to which we have agreed to abide should we reach our funding goal is not putting money above all else, or being ungrateful for all the other benefits of the contract and the site, or even being ’disgruntled’.  It’s just a question about the one clause that was changed. Had another clause changed, questions about that would be fair enough, too.  

It may not feel friendly or warm (like the rest of this lovely site) but it is our duty to take the legal contracts on this site seriously and do our due diligence and there is a level of transparency due us so that we can do that. Many of us thought we had done that due diligence when we joined only a few days ago and now the terms have changed, in a way anyone would consider material, and many of us did not get any notice, so of course there are questions. But they’re not offensive questions, or even heated ones - just practical ones. 

Inkshares have built a lovely community here - I’m enjoying it more and more every day - and usually that reflects the people who run a site, so I’m sure that when the weekend is over, the Inkshares staff will respond and put it all to rest  :) 

Essentially, the change is active immediately. And in nearly all cases–including for the larger part my own–this will be consensually retroactive.

Meaning, new terms have been created for authors and funding writers and they are going to affect new deals as well as established successes.

So you would think I’d be upset about that, right? Well, surprise, I’m not upset. In fact, I’m thrilled.

In a past life I did businesses. Lots of them. Some losers. Some winners. Some even lucrative. All–and I mean all–were great learning experiences.

When I got my deal with Inkshares I thought this is crazy. It was literally too good to be true. You cannot run a company on those margins. It is impossible. After the process of creating my funding book, I knew I was right. There is no doubt in my mind, Inkshares put around $30-$50k into my book while pulling only about $10k in funding and pre-sales. I’m no math genius but I’m a whiz at addition and subtraction, and those numbers don’t match up.

Retrospectively, even now, going into our third printing of The AIM, I know Inkshares hasn’t made its money back. Yet.

Of course, if I were an evil genius I’d being going BWAA-HAA-HA-HAA-HA right now. However, I’m not an evil genius. I’m not even a genius. I’m an astronaut teacher and author and Inkshares is my publisher who has done an absolutely astounding job of impacting the marketplace with my book: Third printing, audiobook deal with Penguin Random House, and of course the tv series deal with Legendary. Plus the creative freedom and rights I retain as writer and creator? Plus we are now working on THE COMIC BOOK (!!!)? 

Wow.

To quote from Kurt Vonnegut, "If this isn’t good, I don’t know what is."

Without Inkshares, I would have none of this. I LOVE INKSHARES. I WANT INKSHARES TO SUCCEED EVEN MORE. So if I have to make fair adjustments to secure and guarantee even more and greater success, I’ll tell you what I told  @Adam Gomolin:

“Count me in.”

And Adam had made it very clear. If the deal didn’t look good to me or if I thought I could find a better deal somewhere else, he’d help me with an exit strategy. 

PFFFFFFFFFT. Me exit Inkshares? Yeah right! No sir-ree-bob, I’m here to stay. I love the culture, I love the attitude, I love my fellow authors (@JF Dubeau, @Jamison Stone, @Gary Whitta, @Jim McDoniel I’m talking to you), I love the camaraderie, I love the community, and most of all I LOVE BEING AN INKSHARES AUTHOR.

The most telling fact I can share is everyone I know and love is staying put. What more, last week I think Inkshares had over 1000+ new book campaigns started. That means even more new awesome authors to share in this wonderful new model. ("Traditional publishing with crowdfunding front-end" I tell my friends.) We started Inkshares together. We have succeeded together. And we are now evolving together. Yes, I’m staying.

Heck, where would I go that is any more fun (and profitable and empowering and authenticating) than Inkshares? Like Montgomery Scott says in JJ Abram’s 2009 Star Trek reboot, "I like this ship. It’s exciting!"

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PS one last thing. Speaking of awesome new authors, while I’m here I just want to shoutout a book and author being funded that has caught my (generally behind the scenes) attention. It is @Evan Graham’s Tantalus Depths.

Being an established author around here means you get to call the actual Inkshares’ Head Honchos and say, "Hey, I think you should take a look at this project." Which I did today about Tantalus Depths.

And like I told Adam, and while it may be early and maybe I’m wrong what do I know but in my opinion I think Evan writing and dialog is terrific and I think Evan has what it takes to win a Hugo.