Quote Originally Posted by MMI View Post
If you publish a story on a website, you may have to grant the website certain rights over your work - a licence to publish in all probability. You can regard this as the price you have to pay to get published. You may have to grant those rights permanently, or just for so long as your works appear on the site. The websites have different requirements in this regard.
Another point worth knowing: I have recently started offering material to commercial e-publishers, and they have stated that when they specify "not previously published elsewhere," they don't count free sites like the Library. Good to know for anyone who might have ambitions to move into pro writing: work posted here is not wasted for future sales.