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Originally Posted by dwig
Usually nothing it cut; that would be too much work.
Ebooks do not have pages, so any reference to pages for an ebook is either to some fake word-per-page calculation or is a reference to some print version. Print versions will vary with with paper size and typography even when they contain exactly the same words. Similarly, ebook vendors' page count info will vary with their word-per-page calculations or with which print version they use for reference.
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SF readers may know of the categories used for the Hugo awards
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award#Categories
Best Novel 1953 Stories of 40,000 words or more
Best Novella 1968 Stories of between 17,500 and 40,000 words
Best Novelette 1955 Stories of between 7,500 and 17,500 words
Best Short Story 1955 Stories of less than 7,500 words
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Back when, no one felt short changed by
Rocannon's World by Ursula K. LeGuin first published as an ACE double.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocannon%27s_World
But note definitions of 'word' differ by word processor for the more obscure cases or even whether hyphenated words are counted as two.