Playboy to no longer feature nude women

end of an era

[LifeinAsia]

Playboy to Drop Nudity as Internet Fills Demand [nytimes.com]
Hey, I only read it for the articles...

[lucy24]

Seriously, have you looked at the single-issue cover price of a magazine lately? I mean, ahem, any magazine whose content includes high-quality full-color photographs. In the 1950's there was a market. Today there isn't.

:: idly wondering how much it costs to produce the centerfold, viewed purely from the printing-and-binding angle ::

[LifeinAsia]

Usually cheaper to open a magazine and grab one of the gazillion subscription cards that fall out, fill it out, then cancel after a few issues- still cheaper than the single issue price.

Or go to the mag's web site and get most of the content for free.

[aristotle]

I didn't know that Playboy is still being published (I spend so much time on the web that I never pay attention to magazines anymore.) By the way, how old is Hugh Hefner now?

[Leosghost]

Depends on the print run.."the printing and binding angle"* is usually less than 10 % of the final price of a hard back book..magazines ..more like less than 5% ..
* By printing and binding I mean the labour involved, the materials, the equipment, and the depreciation of said equipment, the space required to do a print run etc..


Then of course one has to allow for distribution, and it's costs..and taxes..and in the EU vat ( average rate around 20% )..

Photography, ( and the subsequent image manipulation ), other images ,writing , ( editorial staff etc ) wages and fees, admin costs, office space, models wages or fees, insurances yadda yadda yadda..

Playboy's "pure printing and binding costs"..I'd be surprised if they came to more than 2% of the cover price..and that is without printing in cheap , but high quality areas, and shipping the printing in..

Many cases it's cheaper to get high quality printing in Asia and ship into U.S.A or EU than to print on the same continent..and the same applies to image manipulation and layout etc services..