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[A]nother facet to Playboy magazine is its array of talented authors who have published their fiction work with playboy. Award-winning and well-respected authors such as Scott Turow, John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, Tom Clancy, Kurt Vonnegut, Saul Bellow, Stanley Elkin, and Margaret Atwood have published writing with playboy.
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An Indonesian edition of Playboy launched in April 2006, but the controversy started before the first issue was published. Even the publisher said that the content of the Indonesian edition will be different from the original edition but the government was trying hard to ban it by using anti-pornography rules, since the Indonesian government cannot ban any medium. A local Muslim organization, the Islamic Defenders Front (IDF)... opposed to Playboy being published on the grounds that it is pornography. On April 12 a group of about 150 IDF members clashed with police and stoned the editorial offices of the magazine. Despite this controversy, the edition quickly sold out. On 6 April 2007 the chief judge of the case dismissed the charges because they had been incorrectly filed.[4]
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India is ripe for change, and Playboy Enterprises is looking for changes. The magazine was once its crown jewel. But subscription numbers have fallen since the 1970s, and the company said in a presentation to analysts in December that publishing profits were expected to decline, largely because of rising paper prices and advertisers' move to newer media, including the Internet. The magazine's decline has affected the performance of the parent company, which had losses in 2002 and 2003 and a small profit in 2004: $10 million on sales of $329 million.
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This map shows the countries where Playboy is published. The dark pink indicates the countries where regional editions of the magazine are produced today, the lighter pink indicates the countries where regional editions of Playboy were once published, and the yellow indicates the countries where Playboy will be published after 2007.
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After moving on from Playboy in the 1990's, Monaco has significantly distanced herself from Playboy, possibly as a move to "clean up" her image. More recently, Monaco has made numerous cover appearances in other lad mags such as FHM and Maxim magazine. Along with her Maxim feature in 2005, the magazine ... awarded her 13th place on their annual Hot 100 List in May 2006.
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Hefner renamed the magazine "Playboy," to symbolize the seemingly playful, care-free way with which world leaders were building potentially deadly nuclear weapons, and released the first issue. It was an immediate success, selling over three million copies in one grocery store. From that point on, the magazine's days of being slammed as "Boring" were over. At one point, the magazine was so popular that it actually outsold food, with many homeless men preferring to buy it with their foodstamps rather than meals. "Hell, I can eat it after I'm done pondering the philosophical implications of this issue," said one hobo as he grabbed the latest issue of playboy, which pondered possible ways to resolve an Indonesian border dispute by showing Pam Anderson nude. Hefner was delighted that his philosophical publishing had finally made an impact.
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