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Porchlight Book Company

Books in bulk for sharing with employees, clients, audiences, and friends. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Founded 1927. Runs on Shopify Plus.

Porchlight Book Company is a Milwaukee, Wisconsin brand, founded in 1927, selling books in bulk for sharing with employees, clients, audiences, and friends on Shopify Plus. Its store lists 5,000+ products, mostly paperback, hardcover and board books, priced from $11 to $90. It employs 11 to 50 people and runs 4 apps from the Shopify App Store across 3 categories. It spends about $3K to $3.5K a month on those apps and added none in the last year.

The store

Products listed
5,000+
Counted on the storefront
Typical price
$11 to $90
Most products fall in this range
Paperback2,752Hardcover2,173Board Books28Mass Market Paperbound26

Product types as Porchlight Book Company files them in its own catalogue.

What Porchlight Book Company runs on Shopify

4 apps from the Shopify App Store, across 3 categories.

Email & SMS marketing2Other1Page building1

Estimated app spend: about $3K to $3.5K a month. No apps added in the last year.

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Counted from the Shopify App Store. A name shows only for an app our own visit to the storefront saw running, or to signed-in members. how we count.

Where Porchlight Book Company sells

Direct, porchlightbooks.com

Competitors

  1. Exclusive Books

    both sell books across genres

  2. Books2Door

    both resell books and box sets

  3. both resell book sets

  4. Cards for Causes

    both serve business bulk buyers

  5. both resell books

  6. La Bourse aux Livres

    both resell books

  7. Page-A-Day

    both sell books and planners as gifts

  8. Willow Creek Press

    both sell books and planners

  9. Turner Publishing

    both sell nonfiction and cookbooks

  10. Arcadia Publishing

    both sell books to businesses

how we pick competitors

What apps does Porchlight Book Company use on Shopify?

Porchlight Book Company runs 4 apps from the Shopify App Store across 3 categories: Email & SMS marketing, Other, Page building.

Who are Porchlight Book Company's competitors?

The Shopify brands closest to Porchlight Book Company are Exclusive Books, Books2Door, American Bookworm, Cards for Causes and Suomalainen Kirjakauppa.

Updated 2026-10-22. Method notes and every source: how we count →