Okay To Shop Around?

[Really?]

Hmm...
If i mention "degrees by published work", are you going to hand me my a$$ back once again the way you did with the "paratrooper ID" thing? Just asking...

Of course not. Provided, of course, we're talking about someone who earned a doctorate via published work the way it is properly done at recognized universities: by submitting a body of research published in refereed academic journals, brought together in a further piece of writing/research that binds the body of work into a cohesive unit of research. That work is then judged by a committee via viva voce and a determination of if an award is offered and at what level is made.

If we're talking about a book (self-published, no less) whose contents are not a result of a research process judged by peer review (see above), perhaps your use of the term "degrees by published work" deserves a bit more scrutiny. Because that isn't what it means. Not by a long shot.

And it's still OT. We're talking about the same piece of work submitted for two different degrees at two schools. The fact that neither supervised the work nor required further supervised and refereed work is just extra, as is the lack of degree-granting authority of either school.