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Porchlight can sell nearly any book in print.
Buy in bulk directly from our website, or email us for a quote.
Automatic Discounts on Multiple Copies
Porchlight offers competitive discounts on bulk book orders and an array of options for how to process them.
From multi-location shipments to staggered shipping to fulfillment for reading lists, book clubs, and subscriptions.
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With a 1:2 book-to-sale conversion ratio, Bookmarked proves that corporate book clubs are a cost-effective way to make and strengthen relationships with clients.
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We Amplify Your Message
It's all in the details.
Our white-glove customization services make your physical book special for preorder campaigns, book launches, special offers, corporate events, book clubs, gifting programs, and other occasions.
All the ways we sell, ship, and promote books:
BESTSELLER REPORTING
BOOK CUSTOMIZATION
CUSTOM CHECKOUT
DISCOUNTS
MASS BOOK MAILING
PREORDER CAMPAIGNS
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.
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Bulk Book Pricing FAQ
Our bulk discounts are applied automatically. The specific discount is based on title and can be found on each product page.
Yes, you can!
Bulk discounts are only for non-returnable titles. If you are interested in buying returnable books at a discount, please contact our customer service team for title availability and pricing.
Ordering FAQ
We are an on-demand book retailer, which means that while we stock a good number of our bestselling books, we mostly order and ship directly from publishers and distributors. This way, we are able to offer you the widest range of titles, while keeping shipping charges low. If you have questions about stock levels of a specific title, call us at 800-236-7323.
Our site uses the latest encryption technology (2048-bit TLS) to make sure your credit card information is safe. Whether you order online or over the phone, your credit card information is always encrypted and sent directly to our secure payment processor, Authorize.Net. Their hosted payment form collects your card information directly. Our website and backend ordering system never see your full card details and instead receive a "payment token" in place of the card details.
If you order returnable copies, our goal is to make returns as easy as possible for you. Porchlight will refund the full cost of your book purchase, minus the shipping charge, within 30 days after you return to us the returnable book. Books ordered non-returnable may not be returned, though we are happy to work with the publisher to exchange a damaged copy for one that is not. For more information on our return policy, read "What is your return policy?" (below)
Books ordered as non-returnable copies may not be returned, unless we made a mistake. (See “Mistakes” below.)
If you order returnable copies, our goal is to make returns as easy as possible for you. Porchlight will refund the full cost of your returnable book purchase minus the shipping within 30 days after you return to us the returnable book. Please note that returnable books must be returned in their original condition, with no writing or other damage.
Be sure not to open any software included as part of a book until you are sure you will keep the book. We cannot take returns on books (even if we made a mistake) if the seal on any included software is broken.
EU Customers
If it is 14 days or less since your order arrived and you want to exercise your 14-day right of withdrawal, visit this URL https://www.porchlightbooks.com/pages/eu-returns
Mistakes
You may return any type of book (returnable or non-returnable) because of a mistake we made—for example, if we mailed you the wrong book or it is damaged when you receive it. If this occurs, please call 800-236-7323, and one of our Customer Service Specialists will correct this immediately and provide you with a return number. When we receive your return at the “Address for Returns” noted below, we will promptly credit your account for the full cost of the book purchase and shipping.
Address for Returns
For any returns described above, please mail your return to:
Porchlight Book Company Returns Department
544 S. 1st Street
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53204
We take pride in offering customers high-quality, human-centered service, and a reliable and humane workplace for the people who provide that service. That commitment requires us to support our business with a pre-set pricing model. We offer a 20% discount on all trade titles. Most titles have additional volume discounts starting at 25 copies if purchased non-returnable. Every product page on our website will indicate if additional discounts are available.
We consider our website price our quote to you. On the occasion that the publisher has changed the list price or a new edition has been issued to the book you wish to order, you will be notified by a Customer Service Specialist of the change prior to billing.
We accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, and—upon approval—purchase orders.
We are required by law to charge sales tax on all orders placed within the United States.
We are required by law to charge sales tax on all orders placed within the United States.
Import duties and customs fees are charged to the receiving customer of an international order once the package reaches the destination country. Customs policies vary widely from country to country, and we generally cannot determine what these fees will be for you. We strongly recommend that each customer contact their local customs office for details as to how these fees are assessed and applied.
Yes, Porchlight ships internationally! UPS is our carrier of choice for international shipments. For more information about international shipping, see the “Delivery Logistics” section.
In-stock orders generally arrive within three to seven business days, but there are many factors that go into the timing of your order. If your books need to arrive by a specific deadline, please call to talk to a Customer Service Specialist (800-236-7323).
Yes, we do. If a book is past publication date but is not in stock with the publisher, we will email you within 24 hours of receipt of your order (M-F) to discuss alternatives.
Yes, you can, but it will not be shipped until the publication date. One week before the publication date, you will receive an email reminding you of your order and alerting you to the upcoming credit card charge. If you need a book released early in order to arrive at an event prior to or on publication day, call us and we can work with the publisher to try to make that happen.
Yes, you can order your books over the phone! We love talking to customers. Call us at 800-236-7323, and we’ll be happy to help you.
Yes, we hope so! The self-publishing landscape is complicated and constantly evolving, and our ability to sell your book depends on many factors, including the publishing platform you are using. Our Author & Publisher Relations Sales Specialist, Aaron, has years of experience working with self-published authors and would be glad to talk with you about options. Email him at aaron@porchlightbooks.com.
Yes, we are happy to provide a formal quote for any reason. Please fill out the quote form here or call us at 800-236-7323, and we’ll gladly get you what you need.
They are not torn. They are called “deckled edge” pages (as opposed to “cut edge”), and this is a stylistic choice made by the publisher. Here is a good example of a book with deckled edges.
