Forlagið (meaning "The Publishing House") is the largest publishing house in Iceland.[1] [2] It publishes around 150 titles a year[3] under five different imprints: JPV, Mál og menning,,, and Ókeibækur.[4] 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.[5] 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.[6] In 2017, it had a 50% share of the general publishing market in Iceland,[7] 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.[8]