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"What he is describing is better termed as "dynamic"."

The author of this essay is a woman.

We submitted our PayPal application in January and it has not been either approved or rejected at this time. So, yes, it does take a long time, but no, we can't use PayPal. Not today, anyway.

We have been treated respectfully by Amazon's customer service people, FWIW.

They've given us the impression that they're not onboarding new crowdfunding companies, but KS is not new. I haven't heard any comment from Amazon about Kickstarter specifically and I'm not going to speculate.

When we were initially investigating the space Amazon and PayPal looked to be the only payment processors who supported pledges (as opposed to instantaneous transfers). PayPal actually had some advantages, but they were outweighed by the disadvantage that they have never actually processed our paperwork: http://blog.unglue.it/2012/05/03/unglue-it-payment-options-a...

If there are other processors that support pledges, we aren't aware of them (though we welcome suggestions!).

We're working on an alternative funding model that lets us deal with this, but that's a question of business logic as well as software. Mind you, we have a fair amount of both in place already, but there are a lot of moving pieces. We'll keep people posted via our blog, newsletter, Twitter, & Facebook page.

Thanks! I will be writing a proper About soon, and it really helps to have feedback from people who haven't been following us and talking to us for months. Turns out my brain is too everywhere-all-at-once on launch day for me to write coherent sentences right now, but it'll be coming soon.

It doesn't cost $7,500 to make it. The book exists; we're proposing to make it free to everyone on earth, forever, with Creative Commons licensing. The $7,500 is to compensate the author for potential loss of royalties -- make it worthwhile for them to give it to the world.

Thanks for asking questions; it helps us to communicate better.

If you have a bunch of developers, yes. But the entry level filter is people who aren't yet developers, and people talking about code. I've found actual developers pretty welcoming, but I also had to skip the entire beginning of the pipeline to get to them.

Hey, fancy seeing you here :).

And good point on the "self-perceive to know", and how it's not the same as actually knowing. And, of course, ties in with gender issues itself.

FWIW I never had a whit of impostor syndrome in the context where we met. But code culture, it's weird that way.