Books publishing & retail in Netherlands
As of 5 November 2026, 1,132 books publishing & retail are based in Netherlands; Amsterdam has the most.
As of 5 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 1,132
- Hiring now
- 0 · 0 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Online bookshops · 760
- Top city
- Amsterdam · 40
- Parent market
- Ecommerce · 78,214
Books publishing & retail in Netherlands, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Online bookshops | 760 | 67% |
| Book publishers | 225 | 20% |
| Childrens book publishers | 175 | 15% |
| Teaching resource shops | 117 | 10% |
| Bookshops & antiquarian dealers | 102 | 9% |
| Other books publishing & retail | 91 | 8% |
| Self help book publishing | 30 | 3% |
| Single book promo sites | 23 | 2% |
| Novelist author sites | 11 | 1% |
| Poetry author sites | 8 | 1% |
| Digital design template shops | 6 | 1% |
| General interest magazines | 6 | 1% |
| Online art shops | 6 | 1% |
| Fine art photo print shops | 5 | 0% |
| Kitchen advice sites | 5 | 0% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 924 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 183 · 0 |
| 11-50 employees | 18 · 0 |
| 51-200 employees | 6 · 0 |
| 201-500 employees | 1 · 0 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Amsterdam | 40 | 4% |
| Rotterdam | 29 | 3% |
| Utrecht | 18 | 2% |
| 's-Gravenhage | 11 | 1% |
| Groningen | 9 | 1% |
| Eindhoven | 8 | 1% |
| Amersfoort | 7 | 1% |
| Alkmaar | 6 | 1% |
| Arnhem | 6 | 1% |
| Hilversum | 6 | 1% |
| Capelle aan den IJssel | 5 | 0% |
| Doetinchem | 5 | 0% |
The biggest books publishing & retail in Netherlands
The largest ecommerce stores of the segment, by headcount; marketplaces and portals left out.
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What these ecommerce stores run on
Ecommerce platform read from the stores' own pages and DNS.
The stack of books publishing & retail in Netherlands
From their websites and DNS records, page plumbing left out.
Other segments of ecommerce in Netherlands
Ecommerce in Netherlands, the whole market →
General consumer goods ecommerce · 41,087 →
Fashion & apparel ecommerce · 12,845 →
Health, beauty & food ecommerce · 8,747 →
Trade & technical equipment ecommerce · 8,666 →
Food production, wholesale & retail · 6,750 →
Jewellery & watch ecommerce · 3,354 →
Pet supplies ecommerce · 3,327 →
Flowers, plants & home fragrance ecommerce · 2,824 →
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1,132 books publishing & retail are based in Netherlands; Amsterdam has the most. (Breaknorm, 5 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/ecommerce/netherlands/books_publishing_and_retail)
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- ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
- Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
- HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
Books publishing & retail in Netherlands: questions
How many books publishing & retail are there in Netherlands?
1,132 with a confident classification, read from their own websites.
What is a sub-vertical?
The middle level of our industry tree: Ecommerce → Books publishing & retail → leaf niches such as online bookshops, book publishers, childrens book publishers. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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