Penthouse discontinues print edition
The men's magazine Penthouse is shifting its focus to the digital edition and, after nearly 40 years, is discontinuing its print edition in the United States.
According to Kontakter.de and CNBC existing print subscriptions will be converted to digital subscriptions. Subscribers will be informed of this in the coming weeks. At the same time, the magazine is closing its office in New York and relocating all US activities to its headquarters in Los Angeles.
Penthouse was founded in the UK in 1965 by American Bob Guccione, who died in 2010, and launched as a US edition in 1969. While this had a circulation of millions in its heyday, in 2012 there were still just over 100,000 issues. The German licensed edition, launched in 1980 and discontinued several times in the meantime, has been published by an Austrian publisher since 2010. (hae)
