Media Do, a distributor of Japanese e-books, has acquired Quality Solutions and its Firebrand Technologies business. The two brands provide marketing and tech services to over 500 publishers with an increasingly international profile, particularly across Europe. Media Do was created in 1994 in Japan and has developed into a leading e-book distributor in the country’s $4bn market. It entered the US in 2016, since when it has partnered with Firebrand. Fran Toolan founded Quality Solutions/Firebrand Technologies, based in Newburyport, Mass, in 1987 and acquired NetGalley in 2008. Toolan will remain with the business for three years. Terms not disclosed.
Media Do buys Quality/Firebrand
