Cohousing-L Mailing List: Would you like to advertise your cohousing community in our summer Cohousing issue?

[Communities Magazine (communities]

Dear readers of Cohousing L,

	If you are a member of a cohousing community seeking more residents or  
seeking to fill a waiting list, would you like to advertise in  
Communities magazine's special Cohousing issue, out in early July,  
2005?

	Communities magazine is a quarterly publication for people seeking  
more community in their lives and those who want to join a community,  
including cohousing communities. It is currently the only print  
publication in the Unites States regularly covering cohousing  
communities and the cohousing movement.

	Guest Editors of our Cohousing issue are Raines Cohen, board member of  
the Cohousing Association of the U.S., and urban planner Betsy Morris.  
Betsy and Raines live at Berkeley Cohousing in the San Francisco Bay  
Area.  Raines is also a member of Swan's Way Cohousing in Oakland.

Many cohousing communities have advertised with us in every issue until  
they sold all their units and had a waiting list.

Some of these  have included Cascadia Cohousing, Colorado Springs  
Cohousing, Great Oak Cohousing, Liberty Village, Manzanita Village,  
Marsh Creek Commons, Mosaic Commons, Oak Creek Commons, Shadowlake  
Village, Sonora Cohousing, Stone Curves Cohousing, Sunward Cohousing,   
Touchstone Cohousing, Westwood Cohousing, Wild Sage Cohousing, and  
Yulupa Cohousing.

 	 "We've gotten good results! Your readers are looking for what we  
offer."
--Elena Kann, Westwood Cohousing, Asheville, North Carolina

Ads cost less per time if you run it in two or four issues  
sequentially, with a Frequency Discount contract. Most cohousing  
communities have run ½ page or 1/3rd square ads (or 1/3rd vertical  
ads). Here are the sizes and prices of those sized ads:

("1x" means the cost for running the ad once.  "2x" means the cost each  
time for running the ad twice.   "4x" means the cost each time for  
running the ad four times.)

1/2 page 	(7-1/4" x 4-3/4")      1x - $150        2x - $142      4x -  
$132
1/3rd square    (4-3/4" x 4-3/4") 1x - $88         2x - $84         4x  
- $77
1/3rd vertical   (2-1/4" x 9-3/4)  1x - $88         2x - $84         4x  
- $77
        
	If you'd like to advertise, please let me know by June 3rd. I'll mail  
you a sample copy if you like. Just ask.
We'll need your ad art emailed to our layout manager, John Morris, by  
June 10th.
        ((Please don't email your ad art to me.)
John's email address is johnjeff [at] meadowdance.org.

Thanks very much for considering advertising in our special Cohousing  
issue.

More information about advertising in our special Cohousing issue is  
below.


Diana Christian,
Editor, Communities magazine
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OTHER AD SIZES AND RATES:

Full page 	(7-1/4"  x 9-3/4")       1x - $250        2x - $238  4x -  
$220
                                        
2/3rds pg.  	 (4-3/4" x 9-3/4")        1x - $175        2x - $166  4x -  
$153

1/3rd horizontal (7-1/4" x 3-1/8")	1x - $95         2x -  $90    4x -  
$84
        
1/6th vertical      (2-1/4" x 4-3/4") 1x - $58         2x - $55    4x -  
$51
1/6th horizontal  (4-3/4" x 2-1/4")1x - $58         2x - $55     4x -  
$51

1/12th page  (2-1/4" x 2-1/4)      1x - $30         2x - $28      4x - $26


CIRCULATION AND DEMOGRAPHICS
  	We print 3,000 copies of Communities magazine each quarter; 1,500  
are subscriptions; the rest are newsstand and back-issue sales.
Communities magazine can be found in most major health food chain  
stores (Real Foods, Whole Foods Alfalfa's, Earthfare, Greenlife), and  
by many worker-owned food co-ops. Communities is carried by all the  
major national magazine distributors and many regional ones.
  	Most Communities readers are alternative, ecological folks--couples,  
families, or single people in their 40s, 50s. and 60s seeking more  
community in their lives, or seeking (or thinking about) a community to  
join.


PRODUCTION REQUIREMENTS FOR COMPUTER-GENERATED ADS
We prefer digital artwork sent as a PDF file. Second choice is a  
non-compressed TIFF format. Third choice is either (1) Adobe Photoshop  
5.5 or earlier EPS format, (2) Adobe Illustrator 8.0 for Mac, or (3)  
QuarkXpress 4.1 (or earlier) for Mac. For these latter formats (not PDF  
or TIFF) you must include all of the fonts in the artwork, both screen  
and postscript. When in doubt, always include any fonts!.
Any images present in the artwork must be sent as an independent file,  
for Illustrator and Quark. Photos and graphics with any gray in them  
must be 300 dpi. Photos and images that are only type and black and  
white line art, should be 1200 dpi (or at least 900 dpi). Send
digital art to johnjeff [at] meadowdance.org.

We can also use camera-ready hard copy, but prefer digital. (However,  
we will accept it at the exact ad size, and printed out with a laser  
printer only glossy paper.) If you're going to mail us hard copy,  
please fax it to us as communities [at] ic.org first so we can see what it  
looks like. Mail your camera-ready copy to John Morris, PO Box 247,   
Plainfield, VT  05667.
        Our staff can also help you create your ad at an hourly rate.

Communities magazine, 1025 Camp Elliott Road, Black Mountain, NC 28711;  
828-669-9702; communities [at] ic.org.