Readers Digest gone belly up?

[Zak33]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8520243.stm
That's the UK branch..

& the USA side is looking at going Ch11 too.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8206360.stm

My grandparents loved it.. but I just get fed up with the envelopes full of a million things to allegedly win if I sign up

Never ever trusted any of it.. looked bogus even though they existed for soooo long. Tacky gifts and no real content

And allegedly I was ALWAYS specially picked.. ever year.... year after year.

gutted for the staff... not gutted for the company though

[TooNice]

Wow. My parents (well, mum mostly) encouraged me to use it as reading practice when I was a child. I can't say that I was ever that interested in it, but I guess it still has a place in my memory.

[TheAnimus]

Yey Finally.

One less bit of junk mail per quarter.

[Behemoth]

I wondered why I hadn't got anything from them in the last few years saying I'd been selected to enter their prize draw !

[0iD]

Dentist waiting rooms (and waiting rooms in general) will just never be the same.

[merdat]

One less shower of pests.

[mycarsavw]

Headline of the day; Readers Diedgest.

See what they, The Mirror, did there?

[golwg]

Did buy a subsciption for my late father years ago. Great little mag.

[GSte]

Never ever trusted any of it.. looked bogus even though they existed for soooo long. Tacky gifts and no real content

gutted for the staff... not gutted for the company though

Same here.... utter dross.

And allegedly I was ALWAYS specially picked.. ever year.... year after year.

By none other than the legendary Tom Champagne. What a pseudonym, that's marketing at its.... erm.... most dreadful!