Hefner’s handwriting, listing his initial expenses, which included a payment to a Chicago calendar company for the photographs of Ms. In it, he calls their support "just about the nicest thing you have ever done for me," especially, since “much of the magazine will not be material that you fully, personally approve of.”Īlso reproduced for the first time is a ledger page, in Mr. Hefner received in September 1953 from his mother, Grace, for “one-thousand (1000) Class A Shares in HMH Publishing Co, Inc.” and a letter - signed “Love, Hugh” - that he sent to his parents. The book will have a copy of a receipt for $1,000 that Mr.
Hefner edited, as well as a facsimile of Playboy’s first issue, which has never before been fully reproduced. The Playboy DVD will come with a paperback book that Mr. Thompson and ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,’ the idea that you’ll be able to read everything he wrote for Rolling Stone is exciting.” Joe Levy, executive editor of Rolling Stone, said he expected his magazine’s DVDs would appeal to both “longtime and new readers.” He added, “To music fans, 40 years of the magazine’s music coverage is truly monumental, and to fans of Hunter S. Nobody published more delicious advertising.” “It is not only the kind of text and cartoons that you get in The New Yorker, you also get the photos, images. “Playboy is so ideally suited for this purpose,” he said.
Hefner predicted in a telephone interview that the Playboy DVD set would sell better than the others.
#Playboy magazine archive software#
Those that have include The New Yorker, which published its archives in 2005 using software produced by Bondi Mad Magazine, which published its archives on DVD last year, and Mother Jones, which will publish its first 30 years of issues on DVD next month. The boxed set will have 1,024 issues of Rolling Stone from over the decades the magazine turns 40 this year.Īlthough DVD technology has been around for more than 10 years, few magazines have used it to reproduce their archives.
#Playboy magazine archive archive#
Separately, Bondi will offer a DVD archive of Rolling Stone, which will include photographs by Annie Leibovitz as well as articles by writers like Lester Bangs and Cameron Crowe. In addition to the magazine’s first issue (of December 1953, with Marilyn Monroe on the cover and semi-naked in the centerfold) the set features fiction by writers like Jack Kerouac, John Steinbeck and Ray Bradbury, cartoons by LeRoy Neiman, and photographs of Brigitte Bardot and Bettie Page. Hefner’s very favorite issues of Playboy, all to appreciate from the comfort of their own mansion.īondi Digital Publishing of New York, a three-year-old company that publishes magazine archives in digital editions, will be putting out a DVD-ROM set with page-by-page reproductions of all 72 issues of Playboy published in the 1950s. Starting next month, people who enjoy fine writing - oh, and nude photography - will be able to order a boxed collection of some of Hugh M.