No one deserves to be paid for their labor. The mere fact that you put labor into something does not entitle you to other people's money. You get paid because y

No one deserves to be paid for their labor. The mere fact that you put labor into something does not entitle you to other people's money. You get paid because you have something other people want and they are willing to pay you to give it to them. This is completely at odds with the way publishers are used to operating, which is founded in legally-sanctioned monopolies and disproportionate punishment for anyone who dares to infringe their special privileges by using their own labor to create their own copies of existing works without consulting the copyright holder. If you want to be paid for your labor, withhold either the labor itself or the finished product (i.e. the original copy) until you have negotiated a contract for payment. Don't put the content out in public where it can easily be copied and then expect people to pay you large sums for the trivial work of distribution which they could easily accomplish on their own.