The last six-month period, we were down, ... No question that newsstand sales are soft. |
The magazine publishing industry owes John a debt. And I think the best way to repay that debt is to build on his legacy. And to further the cause of diversity on our pages, on our mastheads, in our executive offices and in our board rooms, |
This is quite a departure for us. |
We believe that section 505 is unconstitutional for the same reasons that the Supreme Court found the [Communications Decency Act] to be invalid. Section 505 was adopted at the same time as the CDA and it incorporated exactly the same defective legal standard, |
We believe the sale of a minority piece of this business to the public will create the currency needed to continue to build a top-flight senior management team and to make acquisitions and alliances, allowing us to grow this business even more aggressively going forward, |
We knew this was going to be a challenging year in publishing, as it was for the industry. |
We see this as a natural extension of the Playboy brand. By launching Playboy digital, we are offering consumers worldwide a digitized product identical in every way with Playboy's print edition. |
We see this is a natural extension of the Playboy brand, |
With the strong global appeal of the Playboy brand and the differentiated content offered, we have built a men's destination site with multiple revenue streams, including e-commerce, advertising, subscription and pay-per-view, ... In addition, our recent acquisition of the Spice brand gives us an opportunity to create a separate site, cross-promoted with the Spice TV network. |