Nearly 65 percent of U.S. magazines now have a digital replica edition, but those editions make up just under three percent of overall circulation. For some individual titles, though, digital growth was a lot more impressive.…
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Reader’s Digest Subscriptions Come To The iPad
As part of its ongoing efforts to adapt its 89-year-old flagship to the digital age, Reader's Digest subscriptions are now available through……
Read MoreReader’s Digest signs on with iPad in-app subscriptions
Apple's stable of periodicals available for in-app subscription got a little bigger with the release of an update to Reader's Digest magazine on Thursday. Reader's Digest is now offering annual subscriptions (10 issues) for $14.99, or monthly subscriptions at $1.99 through in-app purchase.…
Read MoreReader’s Digest Revamps Digital Strategy With Former Bloomberg Hire
On top of emerging from bankruptcy, Reader's Digest Association has been trying to remake its 89-year-old flagship so that it is more releva……
Read MoreBerner Out As Reader’s Digest CEO, Replaced By CFO Williams
The new board at the Reader's Digest Association is already making some big changes at the top: CEO Mary Berner will be leaving RDA after fo……
Read MoreReader’s Digest Partners With Health Content Aggregator OrganizedWisdom
Reader's Digest is expanding its health content and marketing offerings with an online/offline partnership with OrganizedWisdom, a company w……
Read MoreReader’s Digest Planning Short-Form Web Articles As Print Teasers
Here's something that's not going to happen any time soon - the Reader's Digest becoming "the UK…
Read MoreReader’s Digest Association Cutting Global Workforce 10 Percent
It's been several months since the Reader's Digest Association emerged from bankruptcy, the publisher is laying off 10 percent -- roughly 27……
Read MoreReader’s Digest UK ‘Sold To Jon Moulton’
By Mark Sweney: Reader's Digest UK has been bought by Better Capital, the private equity company backed by Jon Moulton, the Financial Times……
Read MoreReader’s Digest’s New Recipe For Namesake Brand: ‘Pure-Play’ Digital Exec Sharples
Shades of Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS). Reader's Digest Association is promoting a "pure-play' digital exec to lead across platforms: Allrecip……
Read MoreReader’s Digest Emerges From Chapter 11; Cuts Debt By 75 Percent
After a series of delays, the Reader…
Read MoreReader’s Digest Insolvent In UK After Pension Troubles
Venerable publishing institutions are not overlooked by the crosshairs of technological and economic disruption. Seventy-two years after its……
Read MoreReader’s Digest Delays Bankruptcy Exit; Offloads CompassLearning
A couple updates on the Reader's Digest Association's bankruptcy proceedings: The company is delaying its emergence from Chapter 11 temporar……
Read MoreReader’s Digest Going In For Company Name Change; CompassLearning Sale Hearing Set For Jan 12
Reader's Digest, which is in the process of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorg process, will soon be unveiling a company name change, according……
Read MoreReader’s Digest Lays Off Publisher Tracey Altman
After little more than a year as publisher of Reader's Digest, Tracey Altman tells Min Online that she has been laid off. The company, whic……
Read MoreInfobase Picks Up World Almanac From Readers Digest's Weekly Reader Group
In between announcing that it had most secured lenders on board for its packaged bankruptcy and actually filing, Reader's Digest Association……
Read MoreReader's Digest Bankruptcy Proceedings Moving Fast: Gets Approval From Lenders
Reader's Digest is serious about getting out of Ch 11 bankruptcy fast: it has secured approval of about 80 percent of its senior secured deb……
Read MoreMore Reaction To RD's Ch 11 Bankruptcy And Ripplewood's Washout
Day two of RD's bankruptcy proceedings saga, and reactions are pouring in, most about how Ripplewood for sucker punched on the deal, mainly……
Read MoreReader's Digest Bankruptcy Details: Presentation to Public Lenders
Reader's Digest filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier today, and some more details are coming out via a presentation it gave to……
Read MoreReader's Digest Files For Ch 11 Bankruptcy For U.S. Arm; Ripplewood Washed Out
This had been brewing for a while: Reader's Digest company has filed for a pre-arranged Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company was acquired for……
Read MoreIs Reader's Digest Restructuring?
Reader's Digest Association Inc. has hired Kirkland & Ellis LLP to advise it on restructuring, Bloomberg News reports, citing a "person fami……
Read MoreReaders Digest Cuts 280 Jobs; Publisher Forces Unpaid Furloughs Through 2010
The march of bad news continues: The Readers Digest Association is slashing 8 percent of its 3,500-member workforce -- roughly 280 jobs -- a……
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