That's the conclusion I've drawn after many conversations
with different authors over the years regarding whether or not to self - publish.
Disagreement between Rockefeller and the Broad over Marraffini's role in key CRISPR inventions led to a bizarre dispute, creating conflicting, identical
patents with different authors, The Scientist reported in 2016.
You can get
together with different authors to do a review exchange, or you can try to network with different publishers and book reviewers to see which ones would promote your book.
Mixing formats: short stories tagged onto novels; shorts mixed with poetry; writing travel guides with links built into the ebook; putting front matter (ISBN, etc) in the back to get readers right to the story; adding sample chapters to the back;
cross-promoting with different authors; people are playing with formats, where there are literally no rules anymore.
The «Little Book» people at Wiley should indeed have done this book, but
with a different author.