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Key facts
- Chief content officer
- Jason Buhrmester
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Format
- Digest
- Total circulation
- 3,029,039 (2020)
- Founder
- DeWitt Wallace Lila Bell Wallace
- First issue
- February 5, 1922 ; 104 years ago ( 1922-02-05 )
- Company
- Trusted Media Brands, Inc.
- Country
- United States
- Based in
- Manhattan , New York City, New York, U.S.
- Website
- www .rd .com
- Issn
- 0034-0375
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.readersdigest.co.uk
- Image
- First issue of the Reader's Digest, February 1922.png
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- Commons category
- Reader's Digest
- inception
- 1922-00-00
- title
- The Reader's Digest
- publication interval
- 1
- total produced
- 5653440
- described at URL
- www.namebase.net:82/names/nn01.cgi?READERS_DIGEST_
- official shop URL
- shop.rd.com
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Reader's Digest is an American general-interest family magazine, published six times a year. Formerly based in Chappaqua, New York, it is now headquartered in midtown Manhattan. The magazine was founded in 1922 by DeWitt Wallace and his wife Lila Bell Wallace. For many years, Reader's Digest was the best-selling consumer magazine in the United States; it lost that distinction in 2009 to Better Homes and Gardens. According to Media Mark Research (2006), Reader's Digest reached more readers with household incomes of over $100,000 than Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Inc. combined.
Global editions of Reader's Digest reach an additional 40 million people in more than 70 countries, via 49 editions in 21 languages. The periodical has a global circulation of 10.5 million, making it the largest paid-circulation magazine in the world.