Article: A storybook beginning; Don Linn, new owner of Consortium Books, is new to the distribution business, but he's no stranger to the kind of "big moves" that make for a compelling career tale.(BUSINESS)

Byline: Deborah Caulfield Rybak; Staff Writer

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It's not often that a 48-year-old modern male inspires the adjective "courtly." Or that a move to Minnesota in the dead of winter provokes the response "exciting."

But both apply to Don Linn, soon to be the new owner of St. Paul-based Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, one of the country's tinier and tonier book distributors.

The Southern-born, Harvard Business School-trained investment banker abandoned Wall Street in the go-go '80s for catfish farming in the Mississippi Delta. Now he's moved to a new life as a Minnesota-based book distributor. It's a business jump with ...

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