Bondi Digital Publishing’s Cover to Cover series Rolling Stone: The First 40 Years and Playboy: The 50s will be on sale beginning November 2 in bookstores and all major retail outlets across the country. These fully searchable DVD-ROM box sets from Bondi Digital Publishing bring the past back to life with two of the most popular and venerable publications of our time. Consumers can now log onto www.covertocover.com to place pre-sale orders and watch a sneak preview of both DVD-ROMs.
Individually scanned page-by-page, past issues of Rolling Stone and Playboy are combined with the Bondi Reader, a groundbreaking and user-friendly magazine browser that is compatible with both Mac and PC. In addition, the unique companion coffee table book included with each box set is filled with one-of-a-kind previously unpublished material, allowing users to complement their digital experience with a hands-on look at behind-the-scenes accounts and editor-selected highlights.
The Rolling Stone Cover to Cover: The First 40 Years release coincides with the iconic rock-and-roll magazine’s 40th anniversary and marks the first time its history will be available in digital archive form. The Cover to Cover box set includes three DVD-ROM disks and one Install DVD-ROM disk, with 98,000 pages of content from issues 1 through 1,025/1,026 in their entirety, and a 208-page companion coffee table book. Also included is a no-strings-attached one year bonus subscription to the magazine (a $12.95 value).
Playboy Cover to Cover: The 50s gives readers remarkable access to the first decade of the sensational and genre-defining men’s magazine. The Cover to Cover box set includes one DVD-ROM disk and one Install CD-ROM disk with every issue of the magazine published in the 1950s, a 224-page companion coffee table book edited by Hugh Hefner that includes many of his personal letters and photos, and an exact reissue of the very first edition of the magazine featuring Marilyn Monroe.
