Gyldendalske Boghandel, Nordisk Forlag A/S, usually referred to simply as Gyldendal (), is a Danish publishing house. Founded in 1770 by Søren Gyldendal, it is the oldest and largest publishing house in Denmark, offering a wide selection of books including

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and

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. Prior to 1925, it was also the leading publishing house in

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, and it published all of

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's works. In 1925, a Norwegian publishing house named Gyldendal Norsk Forlag ("Gyldendal Norwegian Publishing House") was founded, having bought rights to Norwegian authors from Gyldendal. Gyldendal is a

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and its shares are traded on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange (, ). Gyldendal stopped the print version of their encyclopedia in 2006, focusing instead on selling paid subscriptions for its online encyclopedia, Den Store Danske Encyklopædi. By 2008 it had decided that it needed another approach to support that online site.Noam Cohen
"Start Writing the Eulogies for Print Encyclopedias"
''The New York Times'', 16 March 2008 In February 2009 Gyldendal began publishing the encyclopedia online using a subscription-free advertising model. In 2017 the online encyclopedia was closed and in 2020 its contents were included in ''Lex'', another online encyclopedia.

Subsidiaries

Subsidiaries include: * Rosinante * Høst & Søn * Samlerens Forlag * Forlaget Forum * Forlaget Fremad * Hans Reitzels Forlag * * Academica * Systime * Exlibris * Gyldendals Bogklubber

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* * {{Authority control Danish companies established in 1770 Book publishing companies of Denmark Publishing companies established in the 1770s Mass media companies based in Copenhagen Companies based in Copenhagen Municipality Companies listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen

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