It does say on the boxes whether it's there or not.
In the US, Best Buy has an exclusive deal with Hip Games to ship the packs with the novella, altho I understand that people who ordered direct from Digital Jesters also got the novel. Other retailers like EB (where I got mine) offer the Divine Divinity CDs in the box with the BD game and manual. I want the novel, but I didn't want to wait for the game (BB is notoriously slow getting things in stock, and as of last Thursday they said there was a 5-7 day wait), so I bought at EB and ordered the fan pack from DJ. I hope they mail it out soon.
