User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-24894325-20170427192340/@comment-5918438-20170428032647

Those are, more often than not, considered short stories here. But that's an interesting stance on novels vs. short stories in print media. To be explicitly clear, on Time and Relative and the others: the Telos novellas, such as Time and Relative, are given the dab term (novel).

With the exception, perhaps, of the Puffin eshorts, and various online releases (like those on the DW website), most short stories, as we define them, are in fact released as part of something larger. Sometimes two novels are released in one, but that's another case entirely. For the most part, this gives us the correct dab terms for those stories which are clearly short stories, and those which are clearly novels. As for more ambiguous prose stories, it's sort of which-does-it-more-resemble. We don't want to introduce any additional dab terms, so if it's more a novel than a short story, it gets (novel).

I perfectly understand CzechOut's rationale that these should be considered novels, however short (and perhaps simplistic), because they are sold individually, bound individually. A book does not lose its novel status simply for being simple, or having been made for children, and if we're not even sectioning off novellas into their own category, these should indeed go under novel, as well.