Editing Reader's Digest (section)

==Books==
Nonfiction books with the ''Reader's Digest'' brand and yearly collections of the magazine's content are currently published by Trusted Media Brands, sold through their website and distributed to retailers by [[Simon & Schuster]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Bookseller Ordering - Reader's Digest |url=https://tmbtradepublishing.com/bookseller-ordering |website=tmbtradepublishing.com |access-date=31 July 2023}}</ref>

Since 1950, ''Reader's Digest'' has published a [[direct mail]] series of hardcover [[anthologies]] containing abridged novels and nonfiction. The series was originally called ''[[Reader's Digest Condensed Books]]'' and renamed in 1997 to ''[[Reader's Digest Select Editions]]''.

From the mid-1960s to early 1980s, full-length, original works of non-fiction were published under the imprint [[Reader's Digest Press]] and distributed by [[Thomas Y. Crowell Co.]] Beginning in 1982, a series of classic novels was published as ''[[World's Best Reading]]'' and made available by mail order to magazine subscribers.

In Germany, Reader's Digest runs its own book-publishing house called {{lang|de|Verlag Das Beste}} which not only publishes the German edition of the ''Reader's Digest'' magazine. Since 1955, it has published {{lang|de|Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher}} (a German edition of ''Reader's Digest Condensed Books''). Besides publishing the magazine, the publisher is especially well known in Germany for the [[science fiction]] anthology {{lang|de|Unterwegs in die Welt von Morgen}} ("The Road to Tomorrow"), consisting of 50 hardcover volumes of classic science fiction novels (such as [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Stranger in a Strange Land]]'', [[Arthur C. Clarke]]'s ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (novel)|2001]]'', or [[Ray Bradbury]]'s ''[[Fahrenheit 451]]'', usually two novels per volume) published between 1986 and 1995.<ref>[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pubseries.cgi?1595 ''Unterwegs in die Welt von Morgen''] on the [[Internet Speculative Fiction Database]]</ref> More recent book series by the publisher include {{lang|de|Im Spiegel der Zeit}} ("Reflections of the Times", a series of recent newspaper or magazine reports) and {{lang|de|Klassiker der Weltliteratur}} ("World Literature Classics").