The Bowdoin Orient

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Advertising in the Orient

The Bowdoin Orient is the student newspaper of Bowdoin College, located in Brunswick, Maine. The Orient has an average circulation of 2300 copies per issue and reaches people of all ages locally, nationally, and internationally. All of the readers are connected to Bowdoin College in one way or another and most will at some point be in the area to use the community's resources—hotels, restaurants, and stores. Your decision to advertise with The Orient will without a doubt help broaden your customer base and open doors for your business in the immediate and distant future.

Advertising Rates

• Publication Frequency: Every Friday while classes are in session (see below for production schedule).
• Average Circulation: 2300 copies, read by on-campus by students, faculty, staff, and local residents, and off-campus by parents, alumni, and friends of the College.
• Columns: Five columns, each 1.84 inches wide with a 0.25 inch margin between each column.
• Deadlines: All ads should be received by 5:00 p.m. on the Monday of the week they are to run.
• Submission: We prefer ads submitted digitally via email (as a .tif or .pdf file, for example), but we also accept ads at our above mailing address.
• Pre-payment Discount: We offer a 5% discount for pre-payment.
• Frequency Discount: We offer a discount of 50% on every fifth ad.
• On-campus Discount: All campus organizations receive a 50% discount on every ad.
• Non-camera-ready Ads: Our staff can design and typeset an ad for you. We charge an additional 10% of the cost of the first ad for this service.
• Payment: Invoices and one tear sheet will be sent out after the publication of each issue (unless the advertiser requests additional sheets or a whole issue).

Description	Camera-Ready Advertisement
Per Column Inch	$9.25 per vertical inch
Full Page Ad 10.25 x 15 in.	$565.00
Half Page Ad Horizontal 10.25 x 7.5 in.	$295.00
Half Page Ad Vertical (small) 3.94 x 15.0 in.	$240.00
Half Page Ad Vertical (large) 6.04 x 15.0 in.	$355.00
Quarter Page Ad 6.04 x 6.0 in.	$166.50
Classified Ads and Inserts	The Orient does not accept Classified Advertising or Inserts.
Business Cards	Can be run as ads at a flat charge of $20.00.

Production Schedule

Dates in gray are non-publication dates.

Fall 2010				Spring 2011
Date	Issue	Notes		Date	Issue	Notes
September 10	1	Back To School Issue		January 21	13
September 17	2			January 28	14
September 24	3			February 4	15
October 1	4			February 11	16
October 8		Fall Vacation		February 18	17
October 15	5	Homecoming Issue		February 25	18
October 22	6			March 4		Spring Break
October 29	7	Parent's Weekend Issue		March 11		Spring Break
November 5	8			March 18		Spring Break
November 12	9			March 25	19
November 19	10			April 1	20
November 26		Thanksgiving Break		April 8	21
December 3	11			April 15	22
December 10	12			April 22	23
December 17		Winter Vacation		April 29	24
				May 6	25	Graduation Issue