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What amazes me is how rarely people mention the words "novella" or "novelette" in this context.
I suspect the thing about more short works geting published on their own isn't that shorter works are more suitable for ereading devices than long works, but that for shorter works, digital publishing may be more suitable than print publishing.
Binding something that's 12,000 words long all on its own isn't that practical, so on paper it's usually collected together with other short works. With digital publishing, something can be written to its "natural length" rather than to a certain print-dictated page count.
I've seen that a lot with webcomics compared with print comics. Each chapter as long as the creator thinks tells the story best, vs each issue 24 (or was it 21?) pages...
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