Playboy is halting regular print issues, effective immediately, CEO Ben Kohn announced on Wednesday in a move he said was expedited by the coronavirus pandemic.
This week’s spring issue will be the last for the men’s lifestyle magazine, which has struggled in recent years even before the 2017 death of founder Hugh Hefner as the nude pictorials that used to be its almost-exclusive calling card have become more passé in the internet age.
The publication, which was published monthly as recently as 2017, will embark on a “digital-first publishing schedule for all of our content including the Playboy Interview, 20Q, the Playboy Advisor and of course our Playmate pictorials,” Kohn wrote in a Medium post Wednesday.