User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-24894325-20170427192340/@comment-1432718-20170428035331

Amorkuz wrote: To the best of my understanding, Hargreaves calls his creations "storybooks", which is neither here nor there.

I'm starting to think that OS25 is onto something. Just look at the otherwise perfect correspondence between prefixes and dab terms: There is only one prefix with two dab terms: PROSE is either (novel) or (short story).
 * TV is for (TV story),
 * AUDIO is for (audio story), including short stories read by one actor,
 * COMIC is for (comic story), including originally published graphic novels, even though there is a separate (graphic novel) for reprints
 * HOMEVID is for (home video)
 * GAME is for (video game)

This distinction was created before my time. Does anybody remember the rationale? I meant to answer this earlier but I forgot.

A few years ago, we had separate prefixes for every single range of stories. There was once a discussion of how to name a couple of new ranges, and that led to the proposal to simplify the system. You can find the discussion at Forum:Prefix simplification.