Categories | General interest magazine |
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Frequency | Monthly |
Founded | 1943 |
First issue | March 1943 |
Country | Sweden |
Based in | Stockholm |
Language | Swedish |
Website |
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ISSN | 1100-4843 |
OCLC | 185269465 |
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Det Bästa ( Swedish: The Best) is the Swedish edition of the American Reader's Digest magazine. [1] It has been in circulation since 1943. Its susbtitle is världens mest lästa tidskrift ( Swedish: the world's most read magazine). [2]
Det Bästa was first published in March 1943 and is affiliated with the American magazine Reader's Digest. [3] Barclay Acheson, director of the international editions of Reader's Digest, involved in the establishment of the magazine in Sweden. [4] Det Bästa comes out monthly [5] and is headquartered in Stockholm. [2] Its publisher was Reader's Digest AB between 1989 and 1998 when the company was renamed as Det Beste AB. [2]
Det Bästa is a news and general interest digest. [6] The magazine had covered materials from its parent publication, Reader's Digest, until 2008 when it was redesigned to expand its content. [7] Its editor-in-chief was Anna-Karin Rabe during this period. [7]
During the Cold War period the Finnish-Soviet Union Association claimed that both Det Bästa and Valitut Palat, Finnish edition of Reader's Digest, were two major anti-Soviet propaganda tools in Finland. [8]