http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/20/playboy_back_catalogue_ipad/Playboy has whipped open the bathrobe on its latest plan to combat falling sales and the ready availability of free net smut – an online version of the magazine's entire 57-year back catalogue.
Those wishing to cough $8 a month (or $60 a year, $100 for two years) for the iPlayboy service are promised "every issue, every Playmate, every celebrity, every article, every joke, even every vintage advertisement".
According to the Chicago Tribune, Playboy's chief content officer, Jimmy Jellinek, hailed iPlayboy as “the world's sexiest time machine”, which is "meant to appeal to that sense of collective nostalgia and affinity".
Punters will "no longer have to store 57 years – 682 issues – of Playboy under their mattress", he noted.