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My information is all of the negative variety, but in all the research I have done over the years on publishers and agents I have never seen one that wanted novellas. The novella always was, I believe, an artefact of long magazine fiction, which was enormously popular before the advent of TV and radio. Print publication of novellas is not an economically attractive proposition for publishers. I don't know how the costs break down, but I imagine it has to do with people expecting to pay by the pound while things like handling costs and design as just as high for a novella as a novel. 

There was supposed to be a new dawn for the novella in the age of digital publishing, where the costs issues were largely moot, but I'm not sure if it really happened. I suspect that with self published ebooks so cheap and plentiful, people may have felt cheated if they bought a 99 cent ebook and found it was only 90 pages long. 

There is also the factor that readers have to be enculturated to any art form to a certain extent, before they can fully appreciate and enjoy it, and very few people are enculturated to the novella anymore. People want novels because they are used to novels. 

In short, I doubt there are many, if any, publishers looking for novellas these days.