News & Opinion
Keep up with the latest industry news and trends, our annual business book awards, and other pieces of news and opinion floating around the offices and minds of Porchlight Book Company.
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Blog / News & Opinion
800-CEO-READ Announces Company Name Change to Porchlight
By Porchlight
This summer, 800-CEO-READ will become Porchlight Book Company.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry, the-company
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Blog / News & Opinion
Three Women in the Multiverse: An Essay
By Sally Haldorson
Our general manager, Sally Haldorson, responds to her reading of Lisa Taddeo's Three Women with a lengthy piece of introspective and insightful literary criticism.
Categories: news-opinion, managing-directors-cut
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The 2018 800-CEO-READ Business Books Awards and Industry Party
By Porchlight
Scenes from our time in New York City, hosting and honoring those in the publishing industry whose work makes our work possible.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry, the-company
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The 2018 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year
By Porchlight
The 2018 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year is Anand Giridharadas' diagnosis of "how the global elite's efforts to 'change the world' preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve."
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry, the-company
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800-CEO-READ's Bestselling Books of 2018
By Porchlight
Taking a look back at our bestsellers in 2018 has once again put me in a reflective state of mind.
Categories: news-opinion, narrative-biography, publishing-industry, the-company
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Inside the Longlist: Big Ideas & New Perspectives
By Blyth Meier
Our marketing director Blyth Meier takes readers inside 2018's best books in the Big Ideas & New Perspectives category.
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
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Inside the Longlist: Current Events & Public Affairs
By Porchlight
This week, we'll be taking a closer look inside the longlist at the five books we believe to be the best in the category of Current Events & Public Affairs.
Categories: news-opinion
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Inside the Longlist: Narrative & Biography 2018
By Rebecca Schwartz
Company owner and CEO Rebecca Schwartz looks inside the covers of the top five Narrative & Biography books of 2018.
Categories: news-opinion, narrative-biography, publishing-industry, the-company
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Inside the Longlist: Personal Development & Human Behavior
By Blyth Meier
Our Marketing Director Blyth Meier takes a closer look at the top five Personal Development & Human Behavior books of 2018.
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
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Seth Godin, The 2018 Jack Covert Award for Contribution to the Business Book Industry Winner
By Porchlight
This year's Jack Covert Award will be given to one of the industry's most prolific authors and most prodigious idea generators, Seth Godin.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry, the-company