Complex sentence: Unlike an e-book, a web fiction is often not compiled and published as a whole; instead, it is released on the Internet in installments or chapters as they are finished, although published compilations and anthologies are not unknown.
Split into simpler sentences: Unlike an e-book, a web fiction is often not compiled and published as a whole. Instead, it is released on the Internet in installments or chapters as they are finished, although published compilations and anthologies are not unknown.