förlag

See also: forlag

Swedish edit

From the verb förlägga, like German Verlag and verlegen.

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

For gramophone records and film, these publishing companies are called skivbolag and filmbolag instead of förlag.