Porchlight works with book publishers in a variety of ways to support and promote their books. With a dedicated customer service team to manage complex bulk orders, an author services team that helps set sales strategy and address each book’s unique needs, and an editorial and marketing team to feature books online, the team at Porchlight can help at each stage of a book’s lifecycle.
We offer easy and effective advertising options for publishers and authors to get their books in front of, and literally in the hands of, avid readers.
We report all book sales run through Porchlight Book Company to The New York Times and NPD BookScan.
Whether it’s part of training someone for a job, an add-on at a conference, or a holiday gift, we can customize books to make a lasting impression.
We offer competitive discounts on bulk book orders, and an array of options for how to process them.
Our one-page order platform provides a quick and easy way to execute your pre-order campaign, book promotion, book club, or corporate gifting program.
We excel at managing high-touch, large quantity orders on tight, specific timelines—including international shipments.
We not only move books, we immerse ourselves in them, attempting to understand the ideas and intent of the authors, and help spread those we believe in.
We excel at moving a lot of books at once, even if that means sending them individually to many hundreds or even thousands of different addresses.
We understand that every order is unique, and often needs the flexibility that only a dedicated personal representative can provide.
We offer a wide variety of services to help authors and publishers capture preorders, and accurately report the sales when they ship.
PROJECT HIGHLIGHT
This preorder campaign included a limited number of signed copies and an invitation to a live-streamed interview with the author.
It's very common for authors to sign bookplates rather than directly on the pages of their books, because it saves them time and money but still allows readers to receive customized copies. However, it's very fitting for Neil deGrasse Tyson, author of To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery, to be the one to go above and beyond and sign his name directly on 100 copies of the books that Porchlight sent to fans who pre-ordered.
To make this special offer happen, Porchlight built the webpage from which Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s fans pre-ordered copies, we shipped out all pre-orders, and sent out email invitations for the author’s exclusive livestream, too.
WE WORK WITH YOUR TIME AND MONEY BUDGETS TO MAKE YOUR PREORDER CAMPAIGN UNIQUE AND A SUCCESS
PROJECT HIGHLIGHT
To help Seth Godin's book This is Strategy: Make Better Plans impact even more readers, Porchlight built a landing page for Seth's fans to place orders for a team-oriented book and product bundle!
The bundle consisted of:
• The Strategy Deck (a custom set of cards that offer more than 5,000,000 combinations to help unlock the value in your work)
• A collectible chocolate bar from Askinosie with a trading card inside (Askinosie is known for their proactive approach to changing the dynamics of the chocolate industry, and also for being delicious)
• Seven copies of This is Strategy: Make Better Plans
• Three month's access to purple.space, including full access to the Marketing Seminar and Strategy Course
This Porchlight-exclusive bundle flew off the shelves!
WE CAN PUT TOGETHER, PROMOTE, AND SHIP BOOK AND PRODUCT BUNDLES
Aaron Schleicher, our Sales Director, is happy to answer your questions.