Don Linn has been named director of the Chicago Distribution Center. A former CEO of Consortium who was most recently at Firebrand Associates, Linn is replacing Donald Collins, who recently retired.

The Chicago Distirbution Center (CDC), an arm of the University of Chicago Press, is one of the main distributors of scholarly and academic books in the country, handling physical and digital distribution for over 100 publishers. Linn will start at CDC on July 16.