If we get our bounty tokens or not (nothing so far)...

in any case today was a MASSIVE PR disaster.

Authorship team knows - and has deleted that embarrassing rant that was posted earlier today on  their website (and sent to their users via email).
Damage is done, though. The text has been screenshotted and quoted all over the web.

And even now, several hours later: no clear statement, no official update on the website, no retraction on the fishy claims that were made in that announcement that was supposed to cheat the vast majority of bounty promoters out of their tokens in exchange for some - very hypothetical - books.

Just some panicked backpedaling since the backlash was louder and more determined than expected.

Authorship - you better do something about your credibility.

People including myself invested money in your platform.

What you have shown today in terms of communication skills, disaster management and (non-existent) contingency plans, etc.  - does not make you look like a professional company that will be able to make a platform with many thousands of authors and even MORE transactions and fraud attempts work and profitable.

Investors - even those just speculating on a quick profit on the tokens, not long-term revenue - will not be amused.