Jack Covert, 77, founder of Porchlight Book Company (previously known as 800-CEO-READ), died on Friday, August 13. He started the business inside Milwaukee’s Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops, and retired from the company in 2014. The company writes: “We believe in books, but our business is centered around the services we provide to customers—because that is how Jack oriented the company. It was an ethos he extended to the employees of the company, as well. He told us when he retired that the thing he was most proud of was how the company he built provided a foundation for the lives […]
