Esquire Launches an Expansive, Paid Digital Archive to Mark Its 1,000th Issue

Making old content profitable again

For its 1,000th issue, Esquire is reaching back into its storied past.

Esquire debuted in the autumn of 1933 with contributions from Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos and Dashiell Hammett. Over its 82-year existence, the famed men's magazine has featured stories from other literary heavyweights including John Steinbeck, Norman Mailer and Stephen King.

"Most people have never read the 17 or 18 F. Scott Fitzgerald stories we ran," David Granger, the magazine's editor in chief, told Adweek.

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