Playgirl Goes Web-Only

James Joyner @ Gone Hollywood | Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Playgirl magazine is no more, Noah at Media Bistro reports:

Nicole Caldwell, Playgirl’s editor-in-chief, just emailed confirmation that the magazine is indeed shuttering its print operation.

“Playgirl is going all-Web. The last print issue will be the Jan/Feb 2009 magazine, which comes out Nov. 18,” Caldwell writes.

Details of the site’s look are scarce, but it will feature more videos and pictorials and less editorial content. In other words, just like Playboy’s site.

Abiola Lapite isn’t surprised:

As it is rather well known that the vast majority of the publication’s readers were not of the female gender, one is tempted to say that the gay men of America will be in mourning - except that they’re the very ones whose waning interest has caused the magazine to close up shop. With the advent of the web and the sheer ubiquity of much more extreme material - an ubiquity so far-reaching that it seems one can’t escape running into gay viewing matter even when it is the last thing one would wish to lay eyes upon - publications like Playgirl which pretended to target female readers no longer serve any purpose, and unlike Playboy, gay men have no female companions to worry about pacifying with excuses like “I’m only reading it for the articles!”

I’m amazed that any of these publications have survived the Internet, to be honest.

Playgirl Goes Web-Only

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