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I pledged a nominal amount (=$10) at the start of the campaign, as the basic concept interested me. However, as it developed - or rather failed to develop - and nothing materialised in the form of visual or video evidence, I became more sceptical. MK's lack of updates and failure to respond to comments made me feel this was not a serious campaign.
I contrasted it with Icarus's Indiegogo campaign for their 8 inch e-reader, where they updated contributors regularly and answered questions in a timely was with specific answers. I picked up one of these as I fancied a larger screen device with a more open system. Though their funding target was only 24% met, that's a lot better than 3% and they were going ahead with production anyway. It arrived bang on time just before Christmas. The device isn't perfect but it is usable and fairly versatile and I don't regret my investment in a larger screen e-reader. My contrasting experience of these two crowdsourcing campaigns in the same field has been a good lesson in how these campaigns can work (or not).
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