Which is technically incorrect as Magic of the Angels by Jacqueline Rayner is to be released in March as part of the Quick Reads novella series. Not the same as an event hardcover, granted...
Although a date hasn't been confirmed, everything I've seen (and for various reasons I'm keeping close tabs on this release) say 2012. The assumption is the fall as the Moorcock and Abnett novels were issued in the fall to take advantage of the Christmas market. Reynolds' book likewise I expect to see in the fall of 2013.
Possibly, but I don't see that as being sparse considering the novelisations are aimed at a) reintroducing the past Doctors and b) being bought by people who have never heard of the Target books and have no access to buy them if they did, so for them they're new. There's also the oversaturation aspect. I stopped buying the New Series Adventures regularly several years back because there were simply so many the only way I could keep up with them would be to read nothing but Doctor Who. This was the same reason why I ultimately stopped buying the Virgin New Adventures, never bought the BBC Eighth Doctor/Past Doctor series at all (those series at their peak were being issued monthly), and also ended up stopping buying Star Treks on a regular basis. But I DID buy Moorcock's event novel, and though I haven't got round to doing so yet, Abnett's is next.
In publishing terms a novella is not a novel, just as a short story is not a novella. The terms refer to lengths of fiction, not how the fiction is published. Though Magic of the Angels will be published as its own book, that does not make it a novel. Its word count does. Someone working on the range for BBC Books, like Albert DePetrillo, would be making that technical distinction between novella-length fiction and novel-length fiction. It is, in fact, technically correct to not consider Magic of the Angels a "novel."
