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amerigoV
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Eventually, we'll get to the third wave, where the customer base are willing to fund selected projects. But to succeed, a project will need one of three things: it will need a 'name' behind it (Monte Cook, Reaper), or the proposers will need a proven track record of success, or the project will be to fund some improvement to an already existing work (e.g. an art budget for an already-existing book).
But for the small-press, no-name designer, Kickstarter is already of limited use.
A well reasoned post!
On Kickstarter, I started at Wave 3 (what I quoted above). I have participated in one so far because I knew the company had their together. It was Pinnacle's Deadland's Noir -- they did the Kickstarter to judge interest in the setting vs. needing the money to produce the book. For everyone else, its "In God we Trust, all others pay cash!" - until I see the product I am not going to waste time thinking about it or commit money to it.