Playboy Enterprises said Thursday that it was placing its entire archive online as an iPad app that allows access to every quote, ad, and nipple the magazine has ever published. The i.playboy.com site will cost users $8 per month, $60 per year and $100 for two years, Playboy said.
The plans for the iconic magazine to put its entire archive online are actually debuting later than expected; in January, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner tweeted plans to have the archive up by March.
Apple's apps store prohibits pornography, so the archive of Playboy content that will arrive on the iPad will be displayed via a Web page as a way to avoid Apple's app restrictions. The content will be formatted by Bondi Digital, the same group that put a collection of Playboy content online in 2009, for free, Bondi said previously. In November, Playboy released a special hard drive containing all of the magazine's content.
Playboy's presence on the Web and iPad can't help but be seen as a relic of yesteryear, when pornography was seen as taboo, and exotic. With celebrity sex tapes leaked to the Web on annual basis, and thousands if not millions of Web pages showing all sorts of sex acts, photos of naked women aren't exactly cutting-edge.
More than 130,000 pages are already online, from Dec. 1953 to the present, and Playboy said that new issues of the magazine would be added every month.
Playboy also said that the site will also feature exclusive videos and curated content recommendations submitted by members of the Playboy Commission, a "high-profile panel of celebrated individuals from art, design, fashion, media and technology". Commission members will provide their own content suggestions from the Playboy archives for users to explore and enjoy each month, beginning in June.
The site will be formatted in HTML5, Playboy Enterprises said.
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