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My brother recommended this series to me a year or two ago, and while I can understand why people like it, I can also understand why it hasn't been published.
One big reason is that most publishers don't want an eight-volume series from an unpublished writer. They want a track record before entering into that sort of commitment. Robert Jordan had written and published a number of books before Wheel of Time.
Another is that many would be leery of accepting a series that has already been released in its entirety on the web.
Then there are some technical points about the writing. Modern usage is to replace other dialog tags with "said" whenever possible, and use action rather than an adverb to imply emotional content. He uses other tags much more often than said, and often with modifiers. The other aspect is POV or point-of-view. Most modern fiction is written in either third limited or first person, which means restricting the author to one point of view character in a scene. He doesn't do this but tells us the thoughts and feelings of multiple characters in a single scene.
All these factors put together are enough to make this series a hard sell to a publisher regardless of quality or how devoted the fanbase is.
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