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Originally Posted by dustinzgirl  Well thats just lame. I'm going to win the lottery and publish just novellas, because long books are getting too fracking long.  |
The market works for long books, not short books, and publishers aren't going to publish in areas they can't sell to the book chains. That would be an easy way of losing money!
Bookstop: I'm sure some people do want to finish a story in one hour, but not enough of them buy books. That's why story collections and anthologies are not published in the numbers they were thirty years ago - mainstream public taste changed, and mainstream publishers follow what the public will buy in sufficient quantities to make it commercially viable. Again: It's a business.
Most novellas and story collections come from small presses now.