@mickeydoughty:

Do I understand you correctly?
Do you say, that it's a positive thing, that sites like the "Library" possibly supersede the commercial publishers?
Then, I strongly disagree...

A "public domain"-enterprise like the "Library" is definitely a fine place to discover new talents, but the possibilities of the "Library" to reward, to encourage and to care for these new talents are limited.

The "library" answers only one question of a young ambitious author:
"Are people out there, who like my writings?"

It doesn't answer the questions:
"Would these people pay for it and is someone ready to risk money and publish it."

On the other hand, a reader, who doesn't have to pay for his stuff anymore, tends to be more forgiving, when he is confronted with bad quality.
(I don't talk about the minority, who writes thoughtful story-reviews for the "Library"; I talk about the silent majority, who only consumes the stories.)
And finally the "why should I pay for something, that I can get for nothing"- attitude could cause a disaster not only to BDSM-storywriting but to literature in general.

I remember the Fifties, when the "Big Screen" was almost killed by TV...
And I think, the community of BDSM-readers is too small, that our kind of "Big Screen" could survive such a competition...

So my appeal:
"If you like BDSM-writings, don't rely on unbalanced nourishment:
"Read the "Library"-stories AND buy from good publishers!"