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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
(I myself, don't really see a need for a distinction between novelette and short-story)
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It is a legacy of the magazine days when an issue would feature a fix quota of short stories, articles, and novelletes, and either a novella or a serialized novel.
Here's a slightly different take:
http://www.fictionfactor.com/articles/wordcount.html
When it comes to fiction ebooks the whole word count thing is becoming irrelevant and we're seeing a breakdown of the categories into (mostly) short-stories and novels, with bigger novels (100K+) no longer scaring anybody.
(And, of course, with ebooks page count is meaningless to start with).