Singel Uitgeverijen is a major
Dutch publishing group, headquartered in
Amsterdam
Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the Capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population ...
. Its subsidiaries are
Nijgh & Van Ditmar
Nijgh & Van Ditmar is a Dutch publishing company, founded in 1837. In 2014 it was acquired by Singel Uitgeverijen.
History
The company was founded in 1837 in Rotterdam
Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the secon ...
, ,
De Arbeiderspers, Athenaeum, Polak & Van Gennep, De Geus, and Volt.
Conserve
Conserve, a former publishing house that merged into Singel on 1 January 2019,
is now an imprint. Conserve books are published as De Geus-Conserve or Volt-Conserve.
Conserve (
Dutch: "Uitgeverij Conserve") was established as a
Dutch publishing organization in 1983 in
Schoorl
Schoorl is a village in the Netherlands, Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Bergen, North Holland, Bergen, and lies about 8 km northwest of Alkmaar. Until 2001, Schoorl was also a municipality of its own.
Sch ...
by Kees de Bakker. The company specialised in publishing
historical novels
Historical fiction is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting related to the past events, but is fictional. Although the term is commonly used as a synonym for historical fiction literature, it can also be applied to other ty ...
.
Cynthia McLeod was one of the authors published by Conserve. Publications include ''
Lord of Formosa
''Lord of Formosa'' ( nl, Formosa voorgoed verloren; historische roman over de VOC op Taiwan; "Formosa lost forever; historical novel about the Dutch East India Company in Taiwan") is a 2018 English-language historical novel by Dutch author Joyce B ...
''.
Brave New Books
Brave New Books is Singel's platform for self-publication, in collaboration with
Bol.com
Bol.com is a webshop in the Netherlands and offers general merchandising products in categories such as music, film, electronics, toys, jewelry, watches, baby products, gardening, and DIY. As of 2020, the store serves 11 million active customers in ...
.
References
External links
Conserve{{in lang, nl
Book publishing companies of the Netherlands