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For an aspiring author, someone hoping to earn a living from writing, it can seem like defeat to give away work that took a lot of effort.  There are plenty of places online to get published but almost none of them will offer the author anything for doing so.  Sites that publish fiction are in general small businesses whose cash flow wouldn't support payment to authors.  So the options for new authors wanting payment seem to be either to give your work away, or stay invisible until you manage to publish something.  Publishing via commercial publishers has a very low success rate so often authors are better off publishing things themselves, an option becoming increasingly viable with print on demand services.