Exploring the world of Magazines

A: What category does your magazine fall under?

Reader’s Digest, it falls under the category of edited and condensed stories.

A: What is the content like? Talk about some of the issues, topics and themes featured in the magazine.

This magazine features mostly in the latest news, humour, food, health, technology, travel, movies, books and word games such as trivia, puzzles and word games.

A: Who owned the magazine and when was it established? What function do you think the magazine play in society?

The founder of this magazine, Reader’s Digest is De Witt and Lila Bell Wallace during the 1920s. The first issue of this magazine was established in 1922. Today’s president and chief executive officer of Reader’s Digest is Bonnie Kintzer while the vice president, Chief Operating Officer, International is Brian Kennedy. The function of this magazine where it talks about the latest news that are happening globally, interesting issues or discoveries that the society would love to read. Other than that, this magazine also included lifestyles that are useful to us. In addition, this magazine also have word games which would enlighten the readers and to improve their critical thinking and their language skills.

A: Who reads these magazines? What’s the estimate circulation number of the magazine?

Well, everybody in the world especially white-collar employed adults and students read these magazine. Reader’s Digest is one of the largest paid magazine circulation in the world which is around 10.5 million. They managed to sell about 45.9 million of copies per month. By 1929, the magazine had about 290,000 subscribers and also a gross income of $900,000 a year.