Why is Readers Digest not popular as before?What happened to american magazine?

I think that there are thousands of new magazine titles, jammed with all the content you can imagine, and this creates more competition for readers in general.

cuz unfortunately now a days people dont care about from the bottom of the heart literature and learning "proper" words all they wanna do is be cool be stuck into a pc,video games and copying Paris hilton and such!(not all but most) eventhou on the web one can find gret info !!!!

peoples stop reading it.

Reader's Digest is basically an idea whose time has passed. It appealed to many Americans who wanted to be more well-read but didn't have the time or inclination to do so. Without today's all-pervasive media, it was in many parts of the country a pseudo-cultural experience. Nowdays, with both the Internet and TV delivering virtually thousands of pages of data and information daily, Reader's Digest simply became not that important anymore.

I've tried reading it many times. The articles don't touch my life at all. I can't get myself interested in it. People have different tastes.

There is a trend toward passive instruction/entertainment. People would much rather have information wash over them than to have to work for it (i.e., read and research). It is an unfortunate truth about our times and will doom many magazines and newspapers to obscurity and eventual failure. The silver lining (if there is one) is that people who want to work a bit harder can distinguish themselves by reading on top of (or instead of) watching CNN and MSNBC, surfing the Internet, and listening to talk radio. They will be, in the final analysis, more well-informed and well-rounded than the masses who all derive their information and knowledge from the same few passive sources.