Re: "A Truth Untold" GOES LIVE. Book publication aimed to present the truth about the Cascio songs.
For me personally, it's not "Gee, I can't tell if this is Michael or not. I need more information." It's "These songs are obviously fake, now how the hell was this allowed to happen?."
Except that this is not what ATU is promising, and that's certainly not how they're promoting their initiative.
this is the confusion I was talking about.
Today I read a convo between one of the ATU founders and a fan who is anti-cascio songs. The fan called them sell-outs for their objective approach, said they needed to be objective 3 years ago and their strong anti opinions cannot be forgotten, added the videos, tweets etc give the anti vibe but the mention of objectivity seems to be a ploy to attract a wider number of people.
I'm not saying if this fan is right or wrong but what they said was definitely interesting.
So I guess there are multiple takes on their approach - which again signaling confusion
there are people that questions whether or not they could be truly objective
there are people who don't pay attention to the objectivity or "we are going to provide information and everyone will make up their minds" claims which portrays the books as middle of the road approach and expect the book to be heavily anti-Cascio songs (probably due to previous opinions of the members of ATU)
and there are others who do want the book to be explicitly and directly anti-Cascio songs and they don't care for objectivity or other side.
Over at Maximum Jackson, PG13 made a good point.
Assuming this project doesn't make it to $40,000 by the end of its campaign, there are various Print on Demand services that will charge only a few hundred for publishing -- this, for example, is how Chris Cadman publishes his works. Even if we don't reach the goal (which, in all truth is a very modest goal but almost impossible to reach within two or three weeks from now), this book can still come out.
he has a point but given how kickstarter works it would be an issue. In kickstarter if you don't reach your goal ($40,000) you don't get anything. so if they don't reach it, they would need to start another campaign to collect money again.
The better way to do it would be to start a campaign with the absolute minimum cost.
For example
alternative 1: calculating the costs for a free pdf release : assuming forensic testing and legal fees are the minimum required and ATU members in USA does the interviews rather than Damien travelling internationally.
alternative 2: calculating the cost for an e-book release
alternative 3: calculating the cost for an print on demand release
alternative 4: calculating the cost for softcover, hardcover etc release
for example
hypothetically if alternative 1 required $20,000, Alt 2 required $25,000, Alt 3 required $30,000 and Alt 4 required $40,000, they could have started a kickstarter campaign with the $20,000 goal and in the explanation they could have added the more money they collect over the minimum goal would mean a better and high quality version of the book.
(note: kick starter allows you to collect over your goal but as I said you can't get anything below your goal)
so as I said if they can't make their goal they would need to start another campaign with a lower goal. I'm not sure if what they want to do and it's impossible to tell how the supporters will think about it.