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Subscriptions

Subscriptions are $35.00 for a full year as part of your membership in the LRC. Mail check or money order with your address to:

LRCNews
Subscriptions
2214 S. Jackson St.
Seattle, WA 98144
lrc@lrc.net

*Special arrangements can be made for persons whose financial status prohibits them from subscribing.

Letters to Editor

The LRCNews encourages everyone to write and express your opinion about the community or the paper. Please, however, keep letters constructive and professional. Please be brief. We reserve the right to edit letters. We will print your name unless you specifically ask us not to. Letters must include a street address and phone number, for verification purposes only. They can be sent via US mail , faxed or e-mailed.

Contributors

To submit material to be considered for publication, please send a copy (do not send original work, or sole existing copies) or your manuscript or graphic material to the LRCNews, putting LRC News Editor in the subject line. Label all materials with your name and phone number. To have your work returned, enclose an appropriately sized and SASE.

Classified Ad Rates

• Commercial (All sections)
  Business classifieds run .30 cents per word with a $7.00 minimum. There is a 10% discount for ads running three to seven months. The discount climbs to 20% beyond seven months. This is a per issue charge.

• Non-commercial ads (All sections)
  Cost 20 cents per word with a $5.00 minimum. This is a per issue charge.

• Personals ads (Woman To Woman)
  Are run for free for a maximum of 3 issues. You may renew personal ads every 3 months.
  

Display Ad Rates

The LRC News also offers wonderful advertising opportunities at very reasonable rates. For more information about advertising, contact the LRC's ad manager by calling 206.322.3953 or e-mailing lrc@lrc.net with LRC News Ad in the subject line. 

* Discounts are available for extended contracts. For 3-7 months, the discount is approximately 7.5% and for 8-12 months, the discount is approximately 15%. Spot color is available. Pricing varies.

Submission Deadlines & Specifications

AD DEADLINE

• Ad reservation: 5 pm on the 15^th of the month prior to publication.

• Ad copy: 5 pm on the 20^th of month prior to publication.

• Ads submitted on disk must be accompanied by a clean hardcopy. If you are emailing the ad to the LRC (lrc@lrc.net), a hardcopy must be sent to the LRC or faxed to 206-322-0586.

ARTICLE/PHOTO DEADLINE

• 5 pm on the 20^th of month prior to publication.

OPERATING SYSTEM

• The LRC News production is Macintosh based.

• Any disks and files received must be Macintosh compatible.

ACCEPTABLE MEDIA

• 3.5 floppy disks, CD-ROMs and 100 MB Zip Disks.

• Files 500 K or less can be emailed to lrc@lrc.net, a hardcopy must also be submitted.

• Any files larger than 500 K must be supplied on disk AND hardcopy.

• Hardcopy ads must be laser printed as black & white.

 AD FORMATS

• Grayscale or black & white images saved as .JPG, .TIF, .EPS, or .PDF files.

• Photoshop 5.5+, Illustrator 8.0+, Adobe Acrobat files.

• PageMaker or Freehand files ONLY if saved as an .EPS file and all type has been converted to outlines (paths).

• We DO NOT accept Microsoft Word, Publisher, Powerpoint or Corel Draw files.

• If you are working on a PC, please save your file in a Macintosh compatible format.

• Compression: We accept .sit, .sea, or .bin self-extracting files made with Stuffit. We also accept a .zip archive made with WinZip or PC equivalent.

• We will convert your RGB or CMYK file to grayscale. Reproductive quality cannot be guaranteed.

• Hardcopy ads (with no digital counterpart) may be scanned for an additional fee.

AD SIZING AND RESOLUTION

• File image and print size must be sized 100% of their final printed size.

• We require 300 dpi for all submitted ads (and photos).

 CLASSIFIED ADS

• Must be submitted by the same deadline date as stated above.

• Must be prepaid.

ONLY WOMAN TO WOMAN PERSONAL ADS ARE FREE.

 ADS SENT BY EMAIL

• All e-mail submissions must be sent to lrc@lrc.net.

• Always include the following information in your email:

• Client name, publication date(s), contact person and phone number.

• Any files larger than 500 K must be supplied on disk AND hardcopy.

  TEXT / PHOTO SUBMISSION (articles, poems, announcements, etc.)

• Articles and photos/images must be submitted electronically to the lrc@lrc.net and include the sender’s name, email address and other contact information. [Keep in mind that faxed or hardcopy/printed articles need to be typed up by someone.]

• Articles must be Word or text documents (with .doc or .txt file extensions).

• Articles must be submitted as attachments, NOT as or within the body of an email message.

• Please do not send article DRAFTS. Final versions only.

• Any previously published articles MUST include the author, newspaper or magazine’s expressed written [emailed] permission to republish in the LRC News.

• Articles should include ARTICLE TITLE, AUTHOR and PUBLICATION BYLINE. Any SPECIAL FORMATTING or  SIDE BOX information should be indicated if applicable.

• Photos/images accompanying articles must meet Ad specifications (grayscale, 300 dpi, sized 100%, etc.).

• Photo captions and credits must be included for proper acknowledgment.

• Photos/images sent separately than articles must identify accompanying article.

• Scanning services are provided for photographs. Quality is dependant on the quality of the photograph