Reader\' S Digest

The Reader' S Digest ( Selection in France and for the Canadian French version) is a family magazine, general practitioner and monthly magazine. In 2004, the American version of the Reader' S Digest was published in 12,5 million specimens and counted 44 million readers each month. Although in light lose speed these last years, the Bureau of audit of the publications (equivalent of the French Office of the publication) declared that the Reader' S Digest was the magazine general practitioner more sold in the United States after the publications of the American Association of reprocessed the (AARP).

Sélection evolved/moved much these last years. It is today one of ten larger French monthly magazines by the diffusion.

It is also published in a version with great characters called Reader' S Standard Broad Digest , and in various editions in several tens of country in the world.

History

DeWitt Wallace imagined a magazine made up of condensed articles resulting from several popular magazines whereas it was restored his wounds of the First World War. DeWitt and his wife of Canadian origin Lila Wallace (born Beautiful Lila Acheson) published the first number the February 5th 1922 from their own house. Initially available by correspondence for 25 hundreds the copy, the magazine was proposed in the kiosks in 1929. Its pulling increased gradually, reaching the symbolic threshold of the 1 million specimens cumulated in 1935, and 10 million in 1994. In August 2005, the American edition celebrated its 1000e number.

See too

External bonds

Official site of Reader' S Digest

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