Our Services for Authors, Businesses, Organizations, and Other Bulk Book Buyers
Our services are designed to solve the challenges that authors, publishers, and businesses face in shipping physical books around the globe to meet a specific deadline, customizing those books for a particular audience or client, and navigating book sourcing, distribution, sales, and bestseller reporting.
All the ways we can sell, ship, and promote books:
From Bulk Sales to Bestseller
We report all book sales run through Porchlight Book Company to The New York Times and NPD BookScan.
In addition to reporting our sales, Porchlight compiles two lists of our own top selling books each month—one focused on business and one on general nonfiction. These lists are featured on our site and within our monthly and weekly newsletters to organizations, book buyers, and the publishing industry.
Porchlight Book Company is committed to the ideals of free speech and a free press. We do not agree with or endorse all the ideas or opinions in the books we sell, but we agree with and defend the right of individuals and authors to have them, to write them, and to put them out into an openly debated marketplace of ideas. As a bookseller, we exist in the heart of that marketplace.
Leave a Lasting Impression
Providing a customized copy of a book is a great way to stand out and leave a lasting impression.
We can add sponsor or presenter logos for a conference, a quote pulled from the book that speaks to the goals of a specific team, an author signature, or a personalized note to leave a lasting impression.
Easy One-Page Checkout
Our one-page order and checkout platform provide a quick and easy way to execute your preorder campaign, book promotion, book club, or corporate gifting program.
It is an ideal and easy way to run special offers or your everyday orders through an experienced book retailer with a customized user experience.
Your promotion plugs into our existing service platform, so your orders flow into our order system and shipping queue, ensuring the same high-level customer service you expect from our team. There are no confusing steps—just your promotion and checkout all on one easily understood page.
Our Logistics
Our customer service and warehouse teams handle all the fulfillment of the order from start to finish. Your authors never have to worry about inventory, individual packaging, address verification, or mailing.
Your Branding
Custom messaging, pricing, and unique coupon codes are all possible, according to whatever parameters you require. Our website infrastructure combined with your branding provides a fully customizable design and page layout.
Data and Reporting
We report all our sales to the major bestseller lists and provide you with comprehensive reports on your promotion’s performance. This is your promotion and your audience, so we share with you all of the valuable data collected in the process.
Affordable and Fast Bulk Book Purchases
Porchlight offers competitive discounts on bulk book orders and an array of options for how to process them.
From warehousing and multi-location shipments, to reading list, book club, and subscriptions fulfilment, mass book mailings to separate addresses, and staggered shipping.You can order any number of books directly through our website– discounts are applied automatically!
Tiered Pricing
Discounts increase based on quantity. Additional discounts, beyond what is listed, may be available – just ask!
Returnable Options Available
If you are unsure how many books you will need for an event, we offer returnable pricing and can break up your order so that some items are returnable and others are non-returnable.
Quotes Provided
We can provide quotes that can be converted into orders once approved.
We Ship Thousands of Books Every Day
We excel at all-hands-on-deck, high-touch, customized orders and mass book mailings.
Do you have a client list of 25 or more people you’d like to send individual copies of a book to for a book launch, corporate gift, or special event?
Do you need each book customized or individualized before it leaves with a letter included or maybe a tip-in page added?
WE CAN HELP. All you need to do is provide a clean list of recipients and select the shipment method you prefer, and we'll handle the rest.
Various Shipping Options
We offer a range of shipping and packaging options to make your mailing go off without a hitch while keeping it on budget.
Book Customization Available
Do you want to customize your books with a special message or include a letter to each individual on the mailing list? We’ve got you covered.
Sales Data & Reporting
We can provide you with shipping and sales reports for your campaign, and we report all of our sales to The New York Times and NBD Bookscan.
Partners For Your Successful Preorder Campaign
Having a strategy for presales is crucial to the early life of a book—and the sanity of the team working on it. Our sales and author services team has seen just about every approach to getting, shipping, and counting those sales, and our custom projects and operations teams are perfectly set up to execute them.
We offer a wide variety of services to help authors and publishers capture preorders, and we accurately report the sales when they ship.
Tap into our decades-worth of experience and knowledge before setting a strategy, and then plug into our backend logistics and customizable service offerings to ensure it goes off without a hitch.
Past Projects & Clients
★★★★★“There’s nobody like Porchlight. You touch things and you make them better. I suggest some hairbrain scheme and you say yes. You guys are the best–just the best.”
— Seth Godin, entrepreneur and author of 21 bestselling books
★★★★★“I can’t say enough about the great work Porchlight does for authors! Need a landing page for people to be able to sign up to get the book? And want the page live within 24 hours? Porchlight did it in less than two hours from inquiry to live. Every step of the way, Porchlight has done a great job!”
— Ted Bilich, Chief Executive Officer of Risk Alternatives LLC and author of Managing Your Nonprofit for Resilience
★★★★★"Partnering with Porchlight felt right from the very beginning. The care for books, for people, and for real impact shines through in every interaction. I’m truly happy we get to bring our new book into the world together with you, Porchlight Book Company! Thank you for the meaningful impact you create."
— Karolin Helbig, Leadership Consultant and Co-author of “The Psychological Safety Playbook” series
Browse Our Services
We've got no shortage of impressive (and cost-effective) way to make an impact on readers and recipients. Page through our services booklet below, or download it here.
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