Playboy enters the digital age

Playboy, one of the oldest of the men’s mags, is entering the digital age. Every story, every picture, that has been in the magazine since it was launched by Hugh Hefner in 1953 - including the famous nude picture of Marilyn Monroe that ran on the cover of the first issue - will be accessible on DVD later this year. All 630 issues of the magazine are to be transferred on to six discs - one for each decade - which will be available for USD 100 (EUR 77) each. It is believed to be the first time that a magazine known for its sex and nudity has been digitalised. Playboy has for some time had a website, but no archival system. Old copies of the magazine, if anyone wanted to look up an article or picture, were until now only accessible in bound volumes. To digitalise the magazine more than 115,000 pages had to be ‘converted’ - which meant typing up all the text. Then breaking down each page into such elements as cartoons, advertisements, photos and captions, writes Press Gazette.

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