Publishing fanfics into books and selling them

a lot of people do this. they complete a fanfic on a site like this, and everyone has read the whole thing for free. then they go and publish the book and start selling while their fanfic is still up for everyone to read for free which is stupid as , why are you selling your book if everyone can read it for free anyway? take down the story if you plan on selling it. and just fyi publishes can and have the right to press charges on you yes you the writer, for distributing the story for free. 

it's either leave to story free to read and don't publish and sell a hard copy. 

or

take down the story if you plan on selling it.

or

don't post the story up for everyone to read freely at all in the first place and simply just publish and sell.

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cheolthetic
#1
isn't that kinda illegal? you're making profits off a celebrity and their name without their permission. or am I just being naive?? another thing i hate that wasn't mentioned, is when authors publish a few chapters of their fan fiction and you have to buy their book if you want to read the rest.
MissMissfit
#2
yeah but the thing is, when a story gets popular if they take it down they get flooded with complaints
plus other people will post your story up so that others can read it, even though you took it down
then others can try to post it up as their own and just change the names in it. if you dont have a version up that's yours, you can't prove anything when you want to report it
so i can understand why some people just leave it up on the site it got famous on. because others are gonna look for it there anyway, and people dont respect authors' work or rights