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Swedish
Etymology
From the verb förlägga, like German Verlag and verlegen.
Noun
förlag n
- an investment, an expense, a kind of business enterprise where a large one-time production cost is financed upfront, by a förläggare (“investor”), resulting in a store supply, upplag (“stock”), which is later sold a piece over an extended time to regain the investment; typically applied to shipping and to book publishing, where the stock is called upplaga (“edition”)
- på författarens eget förlag
- at the author's own expense, i.e. self-publishing
- a publishing company (i.e. a company that regularly undertakes such ventures), a publisher, a publishing house
Usage notes
- For gramophone records and film, these publishing companies are called skivbolag and filmbolag instead of förlag.
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