57 Years of Playboy, Available Instantly Via Playboy Hard Drive

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What would you pay for a copy of every issue of Playboy magazine ever printed? How about $300? (via Techland)

Bondi Digital Publishing and Playboy are now offering the magazine’s entire catalog, with issues published from 1953 to 2010, on The Playboy Cover to Cover Hard Drive. Priced at $299.95, the drive contains more than 650 issues – some 100,000 pages – that span 56-year history of the magazine – all available on a travel-sized 250GB hard drive.

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“Why would you let more than 650 of your favorite Playmates celebrate the holidays in a damp garage, stashed under your bed or crowded together in the basement, when you can bring them all together beneath the mistletoe this year?” Playboy said in a statement. Though Hugh Hefner’s flagship gentleman’s magazine has been struggling lately, Playboy is not the first brand to raise funds by selling off their digital archives. Rolling Stone, National Geographic and The New Yorker have all preceded Playboy in digital portability. Read more at Techland.