Editing Reader's Digest (section)

=== United Kingdom edition ===
The [[United Kingdom]] edition first published in 1938. Decades later Reader's Digest UK went into [[Administration in United Kingdom law|administration]] in 2010 due a £125 million pension fund deficit.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2010-02-17 |title=Reader's Digest UK placed into administration |url=https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/magazines/readers-digest-uk-placed-into-administration/ |access-date=2024-05-04 |website=Press Gazette}}</ref> Private equity fund Better Capital paid around £14 million for the brand and invested a further £9 million into the business. Better Capital sold Reader's Digest UK in 2013 for a [[nominal fee]] to venture capitalist Mike Luckwell.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ponsford |first=Dominic |date=2014-02-17 |title=Reader's Digest UK sold for nominal sum to Bob the Builder venture capitalist |url=https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/magazines/readers-digest-uk-sold-nominal-sum-tv-entrepreneur-four-years-after-it-went-administration/ |access-date=2024-05-04 |website=Press Gazette}}</ref> The brand was sold again in 2018 to its former chief executive Gary Hopkins.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-07-17 |title=Reader's Digest changes hands |url=https://www.inpublishing.co.uk/articles/readers-digest-changes-hands-2371 |access-date=2024-05-04 |website=InPublishing}}</ref> The magazine ceased publication after 86 years in April 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tobitt |first=Charlotte |date=2024-04-30 |title=Reader's Digest UK closes due to 'unforgiving' magazine landscape |url=https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/magazines/readers-digest-uk-closure/ |access-date=2024-05-04 |website=Press Gazette}}</ref>