Playboy cites coronavirus in decision to end print edition

The Hill ^ | 03 19 2020 | Joe Concha

[yesthatjallen]

Playboy magazine announced that it will be ending its print edition, due in part to the coronavirus pandemic.

Playboy's CEO, Ben Kohn, said the decision to stop printing the magazine had been discussed for some time, but was expedited by the global outbreak.

“As the disruption of the coronavirus pandemic to content production and the supply chain became clearer and clearer, we were forced to accelerate a conversation we’ve been having internally: the question of how to transform our US print product to better suit what consumers want today … [and] engage in a cultural conversation each and every day, rather than just every three months,” Kohn wrote in an open letter on Medium.

“We will move to a digital-first publishing schedule for all of our content including the Playboy Interview, 20Q, the Playboy Advisor and of course our Playmate pictorials,” Kohn explained.

“It’s no surprise that media consumption habits have been changing for some time … [and] our content in its printed form reaches the hands of only a fraction of our fans,” he added.

Playboy had already reduced its publishing schedule to four issues a year.

SNIP

[wally_bert]

At some point my copy of American Motors Owners Association magazine will go that route.

[crusty old prospector]

Pacer or Gremlin?

[moehoward]

“ classic content.”

I would think there’s definitely a market for classic reissues.

[null and void]

Great sticky pages replaced by sticky keyboard.

Pages are cheaper to replace.

Keyboards come from China.

Not that I would know about any of this...

[null and void]

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

The false positive rate was 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's or one old fart’s life, it's worth it.

[libstripper]

One of the biggest jobs I had as editor of a newsletter was getting it collated, printed, and mailed. Indeed, collating, printing, distribution and mailing were the main cost and time consumers in the whole operation. They also substantially reduced the extent to which we could use color photographs and graphics. Going digital obviated all those problems. Indeed, changing the subject just a little, my Amazon Kindle has prevented the History Book Club and the Book of the Month Club from driving me out of my house. Now all I have to worry about is the Gun of the Month Club. Maybe another Tragic Boating Accident is on the horizon.

[a fool in paradise]

Wash hands after touching

[Rebelbase]

[xp38]

IIRC they tried non nudity for about a year. Then they went back to the usual. Playboy Magazine 1953-2020. RIP

[wally_bert]

Never owned either but would go Pacer to be different.

I have an AMC Jeep product.

Ownership isn’t a qualification. Open to anyone.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Also due to syphilis, gonorrhea, HIV, genital warts, etc.

I guess they will now proceed to a more classy version of the addictive internet porn.

Coronavirus DANG!

[RooRoobird20]

I hope this means the SWEATY ANGRY @sshole White House “reporter” for Playboy loses his sleazy sweaty job!!! He’ll have to go back to leering at and writing about porn.

[Billthedrill]

Well, what the heck. I only bought it for the viruses.

[smalltownslick]

This is certainly going to disappoint Dolly Parton.

[Tunehead54]

"How many diseases are spread on the paper of Playboy magazine ... um, I’m not going to go there."

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Slightly off topic but I did read that CV-19 was still "active" in stool samples after 30+ days.

Sorry no link.

Nope I ain't searching on that for nothing. ;-)

On the other hand if you aren't a nerd you might have missed this:

[Tunehead54]

Oops! Ms. Lena Soederberg, Playmate, November 1972, I definitely checked the pictures and jokes page, if there was an interesting article I might have read it. For whatever reason this was the highest selling PB issue ever. ;-)

[Richard Kimball]

So, another CIA operation shuts down.