![]() ![]() More than 2 million Australians visit adult-only websites each month - more than a quarter of all internet users, according to the market research company Red Sheriff. The editorial director of Australian Penthouse, Graham Brown, said it remained "one of the most profitable magazines around". Penthouse's New York office would restructure the magazine rather than fold, he said. But even if it stopped trading, the local product would still appear. Our material is local, we deal directly with our own photographers. Our girls are local - Aussie girls.But Holland insists that nobody at the company said that Penthouse will do away with print. Related: Pamela Anderson to grace cover of Playboy's final nude issue "Then everyone picks it up and gets it wrong." "One news outlet picks it up and gets it wrong," she told CNNMoney. The "tsunami of misinformation," as Holland put it, stems from what she concedes was a "possibly weakly crafted press release." The first outlet to pick up the story was CNBC, which stated in its lede: "Penthouse Magazine is throwing in the towel on its print edition." The Wall Street Journal also on reported Friday that Penthouse is "ending its print edition after 50 years on the newstand and will now only be offered in digital format." On Wednesday morning, The Guardian had it wrong. It went on to explain that the publication "will be released in digital format and that future issues of the magazine will be available electronically through subscription." The press release's title stated, "PENTHOUSE MAGAZINE GOES DIGITAL!" Related: Playboy CEO: There's too much interest in porn The press release was disseminated on Friday by General Media Communications, a subsidiary of FriendFinder Networks that publishes Penthouse. Nowhere in the release does it say the magazine is ceasing publication of its print edition.
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