SOUTH HADLEY, MA – MetaComet Systems announced a partnership with startup publisher Quartet Press today. The agreement marked an unmatched milestone for MetaComet in rights and royalties management — the ultimate flexibility and scalability to handle rights and royalties management for publishers of all sizes, including the world’s largest publishers to startups.

“Our Web-Hosted offering has become the fastest growing part of our business,” said David Marlin, President of MetaComet Systems, which offers the Royalty Tracker royalty software. “In fact, we prefer our clients to let us handle all of the IT issues by choosing our Web-Hosted platform. Quartet represents some of the most forward thinkers in the industry, so we are honored that they looked to us to handle their rights and royalties management.”

Quartet also announced it partnered with Firebrand Technologies to handle title management.

“Our partnerships with Firebrand and MetaComet are essential to our core mission: making sure our books are easily found by readers while ensuring our authors are paid in a timely, accurate manner,” comments Quartet co-founder, Kassia Krozser. “We understand the difficulty of getting information to vendors, receiving data from sales outlets, and reporting to authors. The Firebrand and MetaComet systems allow us to achieve our goals.”

About MetaComet® Systems

MetaComet – home to the internationally acclaimed Royalty Tracker® — provides the world’s leading Royalty Software solutions for tracking royalties and rights, royalties processing and Royalty Management. MetaComet’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution can be tailored to meet each customer’s need. Founded in 2001 with a focus on book publishing, MetaComet now provides solutions to content providers in books, music and digital content. For more information, call 413-536-5989, ext 210, or visit us on the Web at www.MetaComet.com.

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.

About Firebrand Technologies
Founded in 1987 as Quality Solutions, Inc., Firebrand Technologies provides steadfast leadership and seamless information flow throughout the entire publishing process. Today, its Title Management Solutions facilitate tracking titles from pre-acquisition through post-production, freeing up staff to focus on their creative specialties. Its Eloquence Metadata Solutions are the fastest, easiest, most accurate, and most cost-effective way to implement ONIX to increase sales and improve communications throughout a publication’s lifecycle. In an increasingly digital world, its eCommerce Solutions help deliver sales across new channels. For more information visit: http://www.firebrandtech.com/