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...From sales of the adless Digest Wallace "nets about 14 or 15? a copy ... or around $10 million a year." He pays his favorites hugely: Executive Editor Kenneth W. Payne got $1 million over 10 years...
...reprint rights (it now has contracts with "some 40" periodicals), Reader's Digest pays as little as $1,200 a year (to the New Republic), as much as $50,000 (to Crowell-Collier and Curtis Publishing Cos.). Authors who get reprinted are paid $150 per Digest page...
...Three out of five articles now originate in the Digest's offices and appear as originals or as reprints after "planting" elsewhere. Usually they are given away; often they take a lot of peddling...
...such planted Digest "condensation" ran 468 words longer than the article (in the Nation) it condensed...
...seemed like a rambling candidate for the New Yorker's own "Infatuation with Sound of Own Words Department." It had not been as stiletto-sharp as many "profiles"-at least, not yet. New Yorker readers might have preferred it condensed. But it was safe to assume that the Digest would not do it for them...