förlag

== 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. ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== bokförlag förlägga förläggare förlagsaffär tidningsförlag ==== See also ==== imprint investering upplag upplaga utgåva utge === References === Förlag in Nordisk familjebok (1st ed., 1882) === Further reading === förlag in Svensk ordbok.