@matrix Wow. Learned something new on Fedi today.

"The publisher that finally accepted the manuscript was Chilton Company. Which was amazing because Chilton Company was not a publisher of novels. It published magazines like Iron Age—which was not, as you might think, another sci-fi fiction magazine but a trade publication about the hardware industry. Chilton did also publish books, but mainly only auto repair manuals, if those count."

https://www.cracked.com/article_31566_dunes-original-publisher-otherwise-just-printed-repair-manuals.html