A semi-daily review of the best original articles from various adult industry news sources - all the news you probably missed. We skip the press releases, the re-worked press releases, the news stories that look as if they’ll be worth reading but turn out instead to be press releases.

PornNewz.com has several interesting articles up with recent commentary on the business by adult retailers around the country. These are the kind of articles you’d expect to see more of on AVN.com, XBIZ.com or the new Storerotica.com website - but you don’t. I think one reason the guys at Porn Newz have more insight into what retailers are really thinking, is that they are on the road all year, talking to retailers face to face. The other guys are content to talk to retailers through their advertising managers. I’m it’s also galling to store owners when they’re given advice on how to run their stores by writers in Los Angeles who’ve A) never run a retail store of any kind, B) have never owned a business of any kind and C) have copied any advice they given from other trade publications or retail consultants’ websites.

Adult retailers discuss the decline of their adult sections

Why The Adult DVD Business Is Dying Part 1 from a video retailer

Top 10 Selling Titles - Sensual Nights - Bunker Hill, WV

The big, currrent news item of the day of course is Christie Hefner’s resignation from Playboy, after spending twenty years struggling to keep the public corporation from running into the ground. I could link to the press release, reprinted here in the industry a few times already this morning.

But why not read it on a site that bothered to add some context, particularly in terms of Playboy’s business? The Washington Post also details Hefner’s termination compensation (per the SEC) and links to some of the bad news articles connected to Hefner recently:

Christie Hefner Out As Playboy Chairman, Will Leave CEO And Board Posts As Well; Street Cheers

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