[TYPO3-commerce] Products with several manufacturers

[Diego Pino García]

Hello,

I'm implementing an on-line bookshop with Commerce. Before going ahead 
with commerce I read a little bit about how to implement a bookshop 
using an on-line shop solution. Generally, people tend to use entity 
'manufacturer' as book 'author'. I'd like to do the same mapping for 
Commerce. The point is that the relationship between products and 
manufacturers in Commerce is many-to-one (one product has only one 
manufacturer, and one manufacturer can have several products) and, in my 
system, a book can have several authors (mainly because almost all books 
are illustrated so they have a writer and an illustrator).

What's the best solution for this? Should I create a new table 
tx_commerce_product_manufacturer_mm and change commerce TCA so it's 
possible to assign several manufacturers to a product? Should I forget 
manufacturer and create my own 'author' entity?

Any piece of advice is welcome :)

Regards,

Diego