Forlagið (meaning "The Publishing House") is the largest
publishing house in
Iceland.
It publishes around 150 titles a year under five different
imprints
Imprint or imprinting may refer to:
Entertainment
* ''Imprint'' (TV series), Canadian television series
* "Imprint" (''Masters of Horror''), episode of TV show ''Masters of Horror''
* ''Imprint'' (film), a 2007 independent drama/thriller film
...
:
JPV
JPV was an Icelandic publishing house, established in 2001 by Jóhann Páll Valdimarsson, from whose initials the press takes its name. On 1 October 2007, JPV merged with the publishers Mál og menning, Vaka-Helgafell and Bókaútgáfan Iðunn ...
,
Mál og menning, , , and Ókeibækur. It is also publishes
maps.
The company was created in 2007 when Mál og menning bought the publishing arm of and merged with JPV.
In 2008 it merged with Vegamót. Mál og menning is a controlling shareholder of Forlagið.
At the time of its creation, it was ten times larger than the second largest Icelandic publishing house. In 2017, it had a 50% share of the general publishing market in Iceland,
and was four times larger than the second largest,
Bjartur-Veröld.
Annual
net profits are around 50 million
ISK (
USD in 2016).
In 2020, the Swedish audiobook service
Storytel bought 70% of the company.
References
External links
* (in Icelandic)
Literary publishing companies
Publishing companies of Iceland
Icelandic literature
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