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What's the marketing language on this one?  Is it being sold as a short story or as a novel?  If it's a short story, as the lead currently suggests, this needs to be moved to (short story).  {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}} 14:19: Fri 05 Apr 2013</span>
What's the marketing language on this one?  Is it being sold as a short story or as a novel?  If it's a short story, as the lead currently suggests, this needs to be moved to (short story).  {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}} 14:19: Fri 05 Apr 2013</span>


The book is forty pages long, and I honestly didn't put much thought into it as I used the preload from the last story in the "range". I think short story would be a more accurate description of the book. --[[User:Revanvolatrelundar|Revan]]\[[User_talk:Revanvolatrelundar|Talk]] 14:24, April 5, 2013 (UTC)
:The book is forty pages long, and I honestly didn't put much thought into it as I used the preload from the last story in the "range". I think short story would be a more accurate description of the book. --[[User:Revanvolatrelundar|Revan]]\[[User_talk:Revanvolatrelundar|Talk]] 14:24, April 5, 2013 (UTC)
::I've done like 10 minutes of Googling and I'm not seeing any particular characterisation on the official pages.  I've just snipped the words "short story", and we'll leave it at "e-book".  With anything under 100 pages, you're kinda at the mercy of the publishers to tell you whether they think it's a novella or a short story. The Penguin 50th anniversary line is ''marketed as'' short stories; the old [[The Adventures of K9]] stuff was called a series of novels; the Telos stuff was called "novellas".  There's really no objective measure as to what a "work of short fiction" should be called, so we'll certainly have things of equal length being dabbed differently.  {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}} 14:35: Fri 05 Apr 2013</span>

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Novel or short story?

What's the marketing language on this one? Is it being sold as a short story or as a novel? If it's a short story, as the lead currently suggests, this needs to be moved to (short story).
czechout<staff />    14:19: Fri 05 Apr 2013

The book is forty pages long, and I honestly didn't put much thought into it as I used the preload from the last story in the "range". I think short story would be a more accurate description of the book. --Revan\Talk 14:24, April 5, 2013 (UTC)
I've done like 10 minutes of Googling and I'm not seeing any particular characterisation on the official pages. I've just snipped the words "short story", and we'll leave it at "e-book". With anything under 100 pages, you're kinda at the mercy of the publishers to tell you whether they think it's a novella or a short story. The Penguin 50th anniversary line is marketed as short stories; the old The Adventures of K9 stuff was called a series of novels; the Telos stuff was called "novellas". There's really no objective measure as to what a "work of short fiction" should be called, so we'll certainly have things of equal length being dabbed differently.
czechout<staff />    14:35: Fri 05 Apr 2013