Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Ivo Gonçalves <ice.saoshyant AT clix.pt>]

Greetings,

Hopefully I've chose the right mailing list to ask this question.

I'm a fiction writer (wannabe), and I've been writing a long story for 
the past 3 years. Recently, a friend told me of Cory Doctorow and how he 
releases his own work both in commercial print format, and in free 
electronic format under a CC license.

I went and looked for everything I could find on this gentleman's past 
and work. I've read some of his speeches and, sincerely, I've been 
touched by his words. As such, I have decided I would publish my work in 
the same way, but some big questions have popped in--questions that I've 
not yet been able to find a clear answer.

For starters, do the publishing houses out there accept an author to 
release his/her work under a CC license, and will they still accept to 
publish this same author on the market?

More explictly: I finish my novel, I license it under a CC license, then 
publish it for free under my website allowing my readers to spread it 
across cyberspace, while I make a contract with a publishing house that 
will release my work in printing form--but commercial--for those readers 
out there who have no computer, or simply prefer to read the good-old way.

Would this work? If yes, how many publishing houses out there does one 
reckon would accept this?

My research shows that I would own the copyright for the novel, so I 
assume I can choose how it's available, while being free to have the 
work published commercially in print form.

How flawed is my argument, I wonder.

I also assume that the different CC license combinations would affect 
the outcome, wouldn't they? At first I thought of choosing a 
Non-commercial, Attribution, Derative Works license, but now I'm not so 
sure at all.

I also have no idea how many countries out there would allow me to do 
what I have suggested above. I certainly would like my work to be 
avaialble to as many people as possible across the world, but maybe I'm 
just being naive.

I am sorry for the long post. Please, if somoene on the list can explain 
me what I can do (or not), or what I should do instead in my specific 
case, I would appreciate very very much your help.

Sincerely,
Ivo Gonçalves