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Good news for those who thought their copies of Playboy were gone forever when their moms found them and threw them away.

The publisher of Playboy magazine said Monday it has agreed to a sweetened offer by founder Hugh Hefner to take the company private. The price of $6.15 a share is an 18 percent premium over Friday's closing price and values the company at about $207 million. The bid tops Hefner's offer of $5.50 per share in July.

Playboy readers can only imagine what it would look like if a centerfold jumped right off the page -- unless they buy the new issue, which features a 3-D centerfold