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 2008			Spring 2009
Date	Issue	Notes	Date	Issue	Notes
September 12	1	Back To School Issue	January 23	13
September 19	2		January 30	14
September 26	3		February 6	15
October 3	4		February 13	16
October 10		Fall Vacation	February 20	17
October 17	5	Homecoming Issue	February 27	18
October 24	6		March 6		Spring Break
October 31	7	Parent's Weekend Issue	March 13		Spring Break
November 7	8		March 20		Spring Break
November 14	9		March 27	19
November 21	10		April 3	20
November 28		Thanksgiving Break	April 10	21
December 5	11		April 17	22
December 12	12		April 24	23
December 19		Winter Vacation	May 1	24	Graduation Issue