| Categories | General interest magazine |
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| Frequency | Monthly |
| Founded | 1943 |
| First issue | March 1943 |
| Country | Sweden |
| Based in | Stockholm |
| Language | Swedish |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 1100-4843 |
| OCLC | 185269465 |
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Det Bästa (Swedish:The Best) is the Swedish edition of the AmericanReader's Digest magazine.[1] It has been in circulation since 1943. Its subtitle isvärldens 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 magazineReader's Digest.[3] Barclay Acheson, director of the international editions ofReader'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 theCold War period the Finnish-Soviet Union Association claimed that bothDet Bästa andValitut Palat, Finnish edition ofReader's Digest, were two major anti-Soviet propaganda tools in Finland.[8]
