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Washington Blues Society  advertising options for your venue, group or event –  contact our editor for more information

Print in the WBS Bluesletter

Copy & Ad Deadlines:
Content must be sent to Editor@wablues.org a minimum of One Month in Advance to allow for design and printing time. If you want to have your ad or event listed in the WBS Bluesletter, you must send your info no later than the 5th or the 15th of the current month to be printed in the coming month;i.e. Send info in May to be printed in June.

Editorial Copy: 5th  of the month   previous

Photography: 5th of the month previous

Ad Reservations: 5th of the month previous

Camera Ready Ads: 12th  of the month previous

Washington Blues Society

P O Box 70604
Seattle, WA 98127

www.wablues.org

editor@wablues.org

president@wablues.org

Print Ad Rates:

Height/Width

Size                    Dimensions                 B/W           color

HT X W  in mm

Full Page:             238 x 187.3                    $360       $450

½ Page vertical   238 x 91.3                       $210        $264

1/2 Page horizontal  116.66 x 187.3         $210       $264

Back ½: horizontal  116.66 x 187.3          $312      $390

¼ Page vertical        116.66 x 91.3            $120       $150

1/12 page square     56 x59.3                     $210    $264

Bus. Card:                56 x 91.3                    $36           $46

For COLOR: Add 25%

 

Print Advertising Discounts:

20% off – 12-month pre-payment

15% off –   6-month pre-payment

10% off –   3-month pre-payment

 

Print Advertising

Formats:

Ads: Sent Only as Attachments

Black & White: Grayscale

Color: CMYK TIFs

Images: All High-Res 300 Dpi TIFs

Stories: Text or Word Attachments only

 

ONLINE-ADS

Click Thru Side Bar Graphic ad — $25 per month

Click Thru Banner Graphic — $50 per month.

Home Page – Click Thru add $50 per month

(All Ad artwork for online publishing must be jpg. file, no PDFs)

E Mail Blasts 

Click thru graphic placement in our weekly Blues News email to the membership –$50 each

 

* The printed deadline for the calendar is always the 10th of the month. From the 10th-12th, as time permits, new shows may be added to the Bluesletter print calendar on the 12th.

** Pick-Up: Mail-out date and pick-up by Nelson Distributing (our Seattle downtown distribution partner)

*** Lead Features: Generally, a two-page article with several photos. When possible, the cover subject will have a corresponding feature article or link to a specific event in the issue.

 

Suggestions for Contributors

 

The Bluesletter welcomes articles and pictures that may be of interest to Washington Blues Society members and Bluesletter readers.

The following suggestions describe the publication’s requirements for editorial copy and pictures.

 

Editorial Contributions

 

All stories, blues show reviews, Letters to the Editor and CD reviews must be submitted as attachments, and not embedded in the body of an email, to editor@wablues.org. Please submit articles as attachments in plain text (.txt) or Microsoft Word. Please title the story with a file name that describes the copy, such as “CD Review Band Name by Author Name” or “Show Review Mark Hummell by Author Name.”

 

Pictures and Visual Art

 

Our printer, Pacific Publishing, requires all Bluesletter submissions to be formatted for traditional print media at high resolution. This generally means that photos pulled from social media or the Internet will not be suitable for print as they are often saved in low resolution (e.g. 72 dots per inch or less). For print, all photos must be sent as attachments in high resolution, 300 dots per inch, and all color images must be saved as CMYK (Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black) images only. Please title each picture with a unique title instead of using camera-supplied numerical file names, such as “Little Bill Show Photo by Photographer Name.”

 

Questions?

 

Please email editor@wablues.org with questions regarding potential stories or photos. Please remember that the Bluesletter reaches not only a regional Pacific Northwest audience but readers across North America and the world. We have an active street team that distributions the magazine to well over 125 locations in the greater Seattle area and mail copies to blues clubs around the nation.