Het Spectrum
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Het Spectrum is a Dutch publishing house.
It publishes books, under its own name and two other trade marks: Winkler Prins and Prisma. Since september 1999 Het Spectrum is a business unit within PCM Algemene Boeken.
Het Spectrum was established in 1935 by book sellers P.H. Bogaard and A.H. Bloemsma. From its humble beginnings in a room above a bakery in de Biltstraat in Utrecht the publishing developed to become one of the largest in the Netherlands. At Het Spectrum work about 50 employees.
Het Spectrum started as a progressive-Catholice publisher that aspired to supply good reading materials to the masses. Hence it published many pocket books. After World War II this formula continued as Prisma Pockets. Among the pocket books were translated classics for the modest price of 1,25 guilder. The Prisma dictionaries were also part of this line.
Among the Dutch authors who published at Het Spectrum are Janwillem van de Wetering, Hubrecht Duijker, Han van Bree, and Ben Tiggelaar.
