Thank you so much for this thoughtful response! I def hear the value of that expanded audience, but I'm also unsure that the actual number of people who pay to buy the anthology will constitute the total readership I'm hoping for, if it's the only way the story ever, ever gets published... It's funny because my issue is not at all with this particular publisher, it's with the norm of magazines who will never consider this story in the future because it was "already published." It's weirdly like feeling that I don't want to date someone not bc they're a poor fit for me, but bc they will drag down my social standing. Which is gross, lol. Thanks again for your kind response!