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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
He could be doing it for purely promotional purposes, to gain a larger following for his for-profit writing, or to show the copyright owners that he can write Firefly stories, with hopes to get a contract to write more for profit. This, too, is considered acceptable by most copyright laws.
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From what I've read, he originally wrote it as an official Firefly tie-in novel, but then Fox decided not to publish any tie-in novels after all. He's been trying to persuade them to let him publish it for a while, with no luck, so decided to give it away instead, since the fans who'd heard him reading excerpts at conventions really liked it.