Thursday, July 30, 2009
Taunton’s Linn to Become Co-Founder of Digital Start-Up Quartet Press
PASADENA, California. July 30, 2009 — Quartet Press has announced that Don Linn, Senior Vice President and Publisher at The Taunton Press, will be leaving Taunton to launch a digital publishing house, Quartet Press. Linn—who prior to his tenure at Taunton was owner and CEO of Consortium Book Sales and Distribution—will have principal responsibility for Quartet Press’ Finance, Administration and General Management.
“It’s been a great experience for me to work with an incredibly talented and generous group of people at Taunton and we’ve been fortunate enough to produce New York Times bestsellers, James Beard and IACP award winners and category leaders in our target markets,” stated Linn. “I’m an entrepreneur at heart and I’ve been fascinated with this transitional phase of reading, writing and publishing for some time. So when the opportunity to create Quartet presented itself, it seemed the time was right to make the move.”
Linn’s partners in the digital publishing start-up include Kassia Krozser of Booksquare.com; Kirk Biglione of Medialoper.com; and Kat Meyer, long-time book marketer for trade and academic presses. Quartet Press anticipates a Fall 2009 launch with the house’s romance imprint, Quench Romance!, with plans to expand into additional categories and service offerings in the near future.
“We think the Romance genre offers plenty of room to operate in existing and emerging sub-genres but we also think there are opportunities in other categories such as mysteries, thrillers, science fiction, and even literary fiction,” says Linn. “Anywhere there’s a dedicated, hard-core community of readers is fair game as far as I’m concerned. We also, because we’re building such a robust ‘back end,’ think there are opportunities for us to provide certain services for other independent publishers who’d rather not reinvent the wheel themselves.”
About Quartet Press
Quartet Press was founded on shared principles to create a high-quality, community-centric, and reader- and author-friendly digital publishing house. First titles will be available in Fall 2009 through its Quench Romance imprint.
For additional information on Quartet Press, please visit our website: http://www.quartetpress.com
Media Inquiries: Kat Meyer, VP Marketing. m: 520.576.0482; email: kat {at} quartetpress(.)com
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That’s exciting, Don! It was a pleasure to meet you and Kassia in DC this summer.
Best wishes in your new endeavor. Sounds like a great partnership in Team Quartet.
Quartet Press is very fortunate to have Don Linn on the team. He’s one of the best in the biz. We’re all going to miss him, here at The Taunton Press, but look forward to seeing the great results we know he’ll bring to his new venture.
Congratulations, Don! What an exciting time you have ahead. Best wishes for much success for you and the Quartet team.
Congratulations Don. The team at Firebrand is looking forward to a long successful relationship with Quartet and anticipate your great success in this exciting venture!
As I replied before, this company is a real winner and one we will definitely submit to.
Congratulations Don. I really enjoyed my years at CBSD and am excited by the possibilities laying ahead for you and Quartet. I can’t wait to see what your first season brings. Best wishes to you all!