Cognella Academic Publishing?

[Wahoo Redux]

Hi all,

Anyone ever heard of or have experience with Cognella Academic Publishing?

They appear small but legit----probably a publisher which specializes in regional textbooks that professors write for their own classes.

It's hard to find info on them.

Thanks, WR

[cointegrated]

Used to DBA as "University Readers" printing course packs of readings at large and medium sized universities. Has since moved into textbook publishing.
The Beall list lists them as a "sort of vanity press" :https://beallslist.weebly.com/vanity-press.html.

They have been hitting up a lot of people lately for possible textbook authorship, including me. I would be very wary.

[Wahoo Redux]

Yeah, when I queried over email to the "acquisitions editor" she admitted that they wanted a textbook which I would then sell to my students.  I didn't respond. 

[Hibush]

Yeah, when I queried over email to the "acquisitions editor" she admitted that they wanted a textbook which I would then sell to my students.  I didn't respond.

Where is the line between "publisher" and "printer"?

[Parasaurolophus]

Where is the line between "publisher" and "printer"?

Between the desk and the photocopier.

[RatGuy]

Seems as if they've been emailing everyone in my department about custom printing for textbooks for the past few terms. I got the same boilerplate email on 5/2, 7/2, 8/15, and 10/10. I just assume it's spam.

[Morris Zapp]

They paid me to review a manuscript in my field a few years ago.  I told them it was crap but I believe they published it anyway. 
I think they sell their stuff to a lot of the for-profits -- ECPI, that type of thing.