We know, you’ll only read it for the articles, right? After months of teasing by publisher Hugh Hefner, Playboy magazine has finally launched its iPad-optimized, uncensored archive -- but needless to say, you won’t find it in the App Store.
Playboy Enterprises has taken the wraps (so to speak) off its latest endeavor, dubbed simply iPlayboy. The subscription-only service touts “every issue ever made on your iPad,” complete with the unclothed ladies that have made the magazine such a staple (see what we did there?) with both men and women alike for decades.
The bad news is, iPlayboy isn’t a dedicated iPad app -- Apple would never allow us to see all of those naughty lady parts, so Hefner and Co. have slyly used the power of HTML5 to create “a subscription web site optimized for the iPad.” Of course, that means you can also access the entire archive of both current and back issues from any modern web browser on a desktop or laptop as well.
So what’s it going to cost me, you say? A membership is a mere $8 per month, which conveniently bills to your credit card every 30 days or so -- of course, you can cancel at any time. An annual subscription is only $60 (a $36 savings over the monthly option) and you can even go the distance with a full two years for a cool Benjamin (Franklin, that is, as is $100 bill), which is pretty close to half price off the monthly membership.
Of course, you’ll need to certify that you’re 18 years of age or older to sign up -- but once you do, your subscription promises to entertain you with “every issue, every Playmate, every celebrity, every article, every joke, even every vintage advertisement, every single page of Playboy all for only eight bucks a month!”
Hey, that’s the cheapest time travel that we know of -- assuming you don’t want to go back any farther than 1953, when Mr. Hefner first introduced the world to his bold new vision, complete with that classic nude photo of Marilyn Monroe.
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