A lot of authors get by on the bits of money they get from various users of their work, and the Internet doesn't change all of that.
It's not for third parties to come in and digitize copyrighted works of 10s of thousands of authors and decide what they'll do with it.
It's great news. She reaches writers in a way that few others have been able to. Her recommendations were incredibly powerful, and she elevated authors whom the greater public had largely not known of.