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Naah, that's okay. This stuff needs clarifying.
You'll notice commercial ebook editions of Cory Doctorow's "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" (and for all I know, his other novels) too. Same general reason: publisher had the right to produce it, so they did.
If you're wondering why my other books are not available as CC licensed free downloads, it comes down to the fact that unlike Cory (who sells world English language rights to Tor, and there's an end of it) I'm dealing with multiple publishers with different publication schedules and different ebook strategies, and getting all of them to agree to something at the same time is difficult. So my overall policy is to (a) nudge them towards DRM-free editions whenever possible, and (b) look to the long term.
As and when my books go out of print and the rights revert to me, my current plan is to make them available on dead tree via a print-on-demand outlet, and release the text under a CC license; but that's a long way away right now.
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