Vol. 4. NM: translation of books appearing in English in tReader's Digest condensed books.
First came Mozart's little Symphony No. 32: three quick run-on movements, like a Classical-era symphony condensed Reader's Digest style.
Digest rights, and their allied condensed book rights, represent another lucrative subsidiary use for books of wide general appeal.
I was such a big Reader's Digest fan, and then my father — who, God bless him, was, like, one of the most frugal men on earth — let me buy the Reader's Digest condensed books.
By Wolcott Gibbs and C. Goldenberg The New Yorker, October 15, 1938 P. 11 Note On Predigested Literature: The article on Professor Albert Einstein, which appeared in the October issue of the Reader's Digest, with the notation that it had been condensed from The Nation, is just exactly 468 words longer than the article it was condensed from: Nation, 1120 words, Reader's Digest, 1588.
Wallace successfully condensed some government pamphlets into a booklet on agriculture that he sold, and he was thinking of extending his condensed booklet technique to articles of general interest when the United States entered World War I. Wallace served in the U.S. Army, and, while recuperating from severe wounds, he plotted the magazine digest idea further.
And the Digest even put its stamp on that book, producing a condensed version in 1982 and presenting it to Pope John Paul II. Starting with newsstand sales in 1929, the Digest became an instant success and ultimately a global phenomenon, as well as an exemplar of paternalistic policies that coddled employees.
(Some quotes are condensed).
Nucleation in condensed phases.
— Interview has been condensed.
