Running Press co-founder Buz Teacher his wife Janet Bukovinsky Teacher have sold the assets of their year-old cooking publisher Burgess Lea Press to Quarto Publishing Group USA. The Teachers will “continue to work with the imprint,” though editorial and production operations will be run out of Quarto’s Minneapolis, MN, office. The Burgess Lea site lists 5 titles in print; it has operated as an affiliate imprint of Running Press (which is now owned by Hachette Book Group as part of the Perseus Books Group acquisition). Quarto has promised to sustain Burgess Lea’s model of donating all after-tax publishing profits to charitable organizations good works that address hunger […]
