Reader's Digest

==International editions==
International editions have made ''Reader's Digest'' the best-selling monthly journal in the world. Its worldwide circulation including all editions has reached 17 million copies and 70 million readers. ''Reader's Digest'' is currently{{when|date=March 2021}} published in 49 editions and 21 languages and is available in over 70 countries, including Slovenia, Croatia, and Romania in 2008.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

Its international editions account for about 50% of the magazine's trade volume. In each market, local editors commission or purchase articles for their own markets and share content with U.S. and other editions. The selected articles are then translated by local translators and the translations edited by the local editors to make them match the "well-educated informal" style of the American edition.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

Over the 90 years, the company has published editions in various languages in different countries, or for different regions. Often, these editions started out as translations of the U.S. version of the magazine, but over time they became unique editions, providing material more germane to local readers. Local editions that still publish the bulk of the American ''Reader's Digest'' are usually titled with a qualifier, such as the Portuguese edition, {{lang|pt|[[:pt:Seleções|Seleções]] do Reader's Digest}} (''Selections from Reader's Digest''), or the Swedish edition, {{lang|sv|Reader's Digest Det Bästa}} (''The Best of Reader's Digest'').{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

The list is sorted by year of first publication.<ref name="countries">{{cite web|url=http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=71092&p=irol-rdatimeline|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071021063558/http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=71092&p=irol-rdatimeline|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 21, 2007|title=Reader's Digest Timeline|publisher=Phx.corporate-ir.net|date=March 3, 2007|access-date=June 22, 2009}}</ref> Some countries had editions but no longer do; for example, the Danish version of ''Reader's Digest'' ({{lang|da|Det Bedste}}) ceased publication in 2005 and was replaced by the Swedish version (''[[Det Bästa]]''); as a result, the Swedish edition covers stories about both countries (but written solely in Swedish).{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

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* 1938 – [[United Kingdom]] (sold in 2010, operated under license)
* 1940 – [[Cuba]] and [[Latin America]] (in [[Spanish language|Spanish]]) (as {{lang|es|Selecciones}})
* 1942 – [[Brazil]]
* 1943 – [[Sweden]], [[Egypt]] (in [[Arabic language|Arabic]]) ({{transliteration|ar|Al-Mukhtar}})
* 1945 – [[Finland]]<ref>{{cite web|title=SanomaWSOY Corporation|url=http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/67/SanomaWSOY-Corporation.html|work=Reference for Business|access-date=April 23, 2015}}</ref>
* 1946 – [[Australia]], [[Denmark]], [[Japan]] (operations discontinued in 1985)
* 1947 – [[Belgium]] (in [[French language|French]]), [[France]], [[Norway]], [[Canadian French]]
* 1948 – [[Canada]] (English), [[Germany]], [[South Africa]], [[Switzerland]] (in French and [[German language|German]]), [[Italy]] (operations discontinued in 2007)
* 1950 – [[Argentina]], [[New Zealand]]
* 1952 – [[Austria]], [[Spain]] (as {{lang|es|Selecciones}} in Spain)
* 1954 – [[India]] and [[Pakistan]] (in English)
* 1957 – [[Netherlands]]
* 1959 – [[Chile]], [[Costa Rica]] and [[Central America]]
* 1965 – [[Taiwan]], [[Hong Kong]] and [[Southeast Asia]] (in [[traditional Chinese]])
* 1968 – [[Belgium]] (Dutch)
* 1971 – [[Puerto Rico]] and [[United States]] (in Spanish), [[Portugal]]<!-- (starting out as selections) -->
* 1978 – [[South Korea]] (operations discontinued in 2009)
* 1991 – [[Hungary]], [[Russia]]
* 1993 – [[Czech Republic]] (operations discontinued in 2017)
* 1995 – [[Poland]]
* 1996 – [[Thailand]] (operations discontinued in 2014)
* 1997 – [[Slovakia]]
* 2004 – [[Indonesia]] (operations discontinued in October 2015)
* 2005 – [[Romania]], [[Slovenia]], [[Croatia]], [[Bulgaria]]
* 2007 – [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]], [[Serbia]], [[Ukraine]]
* 2008 – [[China]] (operations discontinued in 2012)
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===Arabic editions===
The first ''Reader's Digest'' publication in the [[Arab World]] was printed in Egypt in September 1943.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nagam.org/showthread.php?t=3159|title=مجلة " المختار " تعاود الصدور من الرياض - منتدى نغم|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100626190519/http://www.nagam.org/showthread.php?t=3159|archive-date=June 26, 2010|df=mdy-all}}</ref> The license was eventually withdrawn.

The second effort and the first ''Reader's Digest'' franchise agreement was negotiated through the efforts of Frederick Pittera, in 1976, an American entrepreneur, who sold the idea to [[Lebanon]]'s former foreign minister, [[Lucien Dahdah]], then son-in-law of [[Suleiman Frangieh]], [[President of Lebanon]]. Dahdah partnered with [[Ghassan Tueni]] (former Lebanon [[ambassador to the United Nations]], and publisher of {{transliteration|ar|Al Nahar}} newspaper, [[Beirut]]) in publishing ''Reader's Digest'' in the Arabic language. It was printed in [[Cairo]] for distribution throughout the Arab world under title {{transliteration|ar|Al-Mukhtar}}. In format, {{transliteration|ar|Al-Mukhtar}} was the same as the U.S. edition with 75% of the editorial content. Philip Hitti, Chairman of [[Princeton University]]'s Department of Oriental Languages and a team of Arabic advisers counseled on what would be of interest to Arabic readers. The publication of {{transliteration|ar|Al-Mukhtar}} ceased in April 1993.

===Canadian edition===
The [[Canada|Canadian]] edition first appeared in July 1947 in French and in February 1948 in English; today, the vast majority of its content is Canadian. Nearly all major and minor articles are locally produced or selected from Canadian publications that match the ''Digest'' style. Usually, there is one American article in each issue.

"Life's Like That" is the Canadian name of "Life in These United States." Most of the other rubrics are taken from the American publication.

On December 6, 2023, it was announced that Reader's Digest Canada would cease publication in the spring of 2024.<ref>[https://montrealgazette.com/business/readers-digest-magazine-to-cease-activities-next-spring "Reader's Digest Magazine to cease activities next spring"]. The Montreal Gazette, December 6, 2023.</ref><ref>[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-readers-digest-to-shut-down-canadian-magazine-in-2024/ Reader’s Digest Canada, once a household staple, will end its run after 76 years] The Globe and Mail December 05, 2023.</ref>

===Indian edition===
The [[India]]n edition was first published in 1954. Its circulation then was 40,000 copies. It was published for many years by the [[Tata Group]] of companies. Today, the magazine is published in India by Living Media India Ltd,<ref name="india"/> and sold over 600,000. It prints Indian and international articles.<ref name="india">[https://web.archive.org/web/20040708055400/http://www.rd-india.com/newsite/aboutus/aboutus.asp Indian version] of ''Reader's Digest''.</ref> According to the Indian Readership Survey Round II of 2009, the readership for ''Reader's Digest'' was 3.94 [[million]], second only to ''[[India Today]]'' at 5.62 million.<ref name="india"/> That has since declined. In the 2017 Survey, the India edition had fallen to ninth position with a readership of 1.354 million, and in the latest Survey (Quarter 1 of 2019), it is not in the Top 10 list of English-language magazines published in India.

===Australian edition===
According to readership estimates by [[Roy Morgan]], ''Reader's Digest Australia'' had an average readership per issue of 362,000 as at September 2023.<ref name="rm2023">{{cite web |title=Readership of magazines is up 3.5% from a year ago with increases in readership for all magazine categories |url=https://www.roymorgan.com/findings/9397-australian-magazine-print-readership-and-cross-platform-audiences-september-2023 |publisher=[[Roy Morgan]] |date=28 November 2023 |accessdate=9 February 2024}}</ref>