"This will be a new way for its readers to acquaintance the world's best developed magazine," the aggregation said in a statement. "Reimagined for the adopted burning of agreeable today by consumers, the agenda adaptation of Penthouse Annual will amalgamate and catechumen aggregate readers apperceive and adulation about the book annual acquaintance to the ability of a agenda experience."
As allotment of the move, Penthouse has shuttered its annual analysis in New York, affective all operations to its Los Angeles headquarters. Subscribers, the annual says, will accept instructions on how to catechumen their accounts.
Officials at Penthouse ancestor aggregation FriendFinder Networks did not acknowledgment to requests for comment.
The move comes just three months afterwards ancient accomplished battling Playboy appear across-the-board changes to its book magazine. December was the endure book affair that featured nude models, with Pamela Anderson getting the endure woman to afford her clothes for the magazine.
While contempo Penthouse apportionment abstracts are not available, the annual has been disturbing for several years. In September 2013, its administrator went bankrupt. At the time, the aggregation (whose backing aswell cover the AdultFriendFinder website) said it had not angry a accumulation back 2008. It was austere to avenue defalcation cloister three months later.
Penthouse itself was bought by FriendFinder in 2004 afterwards it filed for bankruptcy.
Given the acceleration in acceptance of developed agreeable on the Internet, developed magazines on the accomplished accept abundantly been relegated to the sidelines of the developed ball world. But 30 years ago, they were one of the industry's highest-profile presences in the boilerplate world.
The September 1984 affair of Penthouse, in fact, is one of the a lot of acclaimed — and abominable — issues of any annual anytime to hit newsstands. If founder/publisher Bob Guccione printed nude pictures of Vanessa Williams, the ascendant Miss America at the time, humans couldn't buy it fast enough. The affair awash 5.3 actor copies — the additional accomplished anytime for a U.S. magazine.
It became a collectible, back it played such a key role in the aspersion that followed. Unfortunately, the issue's adorable was the aboriginal actualization of Traci Lords, who angry out to be 16 years old at the time, authoritative anyone in control of the annual at accident of owning adolescent pornography.
It's absurd to accomplish that array of ballyhoo again, abnormally if it have to attempt with so abounding added online magazines, abounding of which are free. But aggregation admiral say closing down the book copy to focus on agenda is a cardinal necessity.
"This move will accumulate Penthouse aggressive in the approaching and will seamlessly amalgamate our incomparable aesthetic appearance and beat agreeable with our video and advertisement offerings," FriendFinder Networks CEO Jonathan Buckheit said in a statement.
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