As far as giving out the first chapter or so of a story and asking people to pay to read more, commercial publishers do that all the time. They just label it as a "free preview", so as long as you specify that it's a free preview or something to that effect, I don't think there's anything wrong with doing that.
I do know someone who's gotten original fiction he wrote for NaNoWriMo published, although I'm not sure of the details - I think he started with ebooks, and then was able to sell his ebook on Amazon.com, and then later got published? (Or maybe he's still just selling ebooks)
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Date: 2012-07-16 08:48 pm (UTC)From:I do know someone who's gotten original fiction he wrote for NaNoWriMo published, although I'm not sure of the details - I think he started with ebooks, and then was able to sell his ebook on Amazon.com, and then later got published? (Or maybe he's still just selling ebooks)