- Kunnskapsforlaget
Infobox Company
company_name = Kunnskapsforlaget ANS
company_
company_type = Private
foundation = 1975
location =Oslo ,Norway
key_people = Kristin Weidemann (CEO)
area_served =Norway
industry =Publishing
products =
revenue =
operating_income =
net_income =
num_employees = 90 (2007)
parent =Aschehoug Gyldendal Norsk Forlag
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homepage = [http://www.kunnskapsforlaget.no www.kunnskapsforlaget.no ]
footnotes =Kunnskapsforlaget is a Norwegian
publishing company based inOslo that concentrates onencyclopedia s, encyclopedic books and dictonaries. The company, created in 1975, is owned byGyldendal Norsk Forlag andAschehoug (50% each).Kunnskapsforlaget's best-known product is
Store norske leksikon (SNL), the only remaining Norwegian paper encyclopedia. The decline in sales of paper-based encyclopedias around the turn of the century hit Kunnskapsforlaget hard, but a fourth edition of SNL was finally secured by a grant of NOK 10 million from theFritt Ord foundation in 2003. The fourth edition will consist of 16 volumes, a total of 12,000 pages and 280,000 entries. SNL has been available online since 2000 and has several hundred thousand subscribers (private and institutional). The number of online articles is about 150,000.References
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