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READERS DIGEST

Welcome to our growing guide to Popular UK magazines. This list is growing and we have started off with our top ten picks of quality magazines.

Reader's Digest - Selected articles . The Readers Digest was founded shortly after the first World War, as it's founder, American De Witt Wallace recovered from his wounds. He discovered that while there was much of interest to read, few had the time to sit down and take it all in.

He tried to interest publishers in the idea of a magazine containing shortened articles, but found the going tough. Eventually he decided to publish the magazine himself and after a small print run, going out to a smaller number of subscribers, interest grew until buy the mid 30's Readers Digest circulation was hitting a million.

Just prior to World War 2 the first UK edition appeared, followed in the 1950's by Readers Digest Condensed Books.

Now - The Readers Digest is published in 19 languages : English, French, Norwegian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian, Thai, Korean, Finnish, Danish, German, Dutch and Swedish. A hundred million readers every month turn to the Readers Digest for informative articles.

Subscriptions to Readers Digest are available at WH Smith - Magazine Subscriptions Made Easy

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