SUBMIT AN ARTICLE
We encourage anyone with an interest in the mountain community to submit articles, letters, photos, and art. Please call Mountain Network News at 408-353-1901, or Neil or Marlene Wiley (408-353-1546), fax to 408-353-3198. or e-mail news@mnn.net

Mail submissions to:

Mountain Network News
23625 Sky View Terrace
Los Gatos, CA 95033-9212

Please type your submissions. Photos may be sent via email attachments in tif or jpg format. Use the full resolution and picture size available. If you have several pictures, it may be better to burn a CD. If you mail us a print, be sure it is protected by heavy cardboard.

We reserve the right to edit submissions.

We assume no responsibility for authors' opinions, errors, or omissions.

 

PLACE AN AD
We publish monthly. Closing date is the tenth of the month. (January ads and editorial close December 10.)

All ads MUST be paid for in advance. Please enclose a check with your artwork. We assume no responsibility for advertisers' submissions.

Mail your check and artwork to Mountain Network News, 23625 Sky View Terrace, Los Gatos, CA 95033-9212.

For advertising information, call Neil or Marlene Wiley at 408-353-1901.

Preferred format is PDF. Be sure that fonts are embedded, and that the ad meets size requirements. If you would like us to prepare your ad, we can arrange for production.

CIRCULATION: Over 4,000 households via postal delivery and advertisers.

 

2008 Ad Rates

Cost per ad

(subject to change)

Ads per year

Size

1 to 5 times per ad

 6 times 12 times

Business card, vertical

3 3/4" high by 2 1/4" wide

 $120 $115 $110

Business card, horizontal

2 1/4" high by 3 3/4" wide

 120 115 110

Jumbo business card

2 1/4" high by 5 " wide

 175 165 155

Quarter page, vertical

4 1/2" high by 3 5/ 8" wide

 225 210 200

Quarter page, horizontal

2 1/4" high by 7 1/4" wide

 225 210 200

Third page, column

10" high by 2 1/4 " wide

 300 285 265

Third page, horizontal

3 1/4" high by 7 1/4" wide

 300 285 265

Half page

4 1/2" high by 7 1/4" wide

 365 340 320

Two-thirds page

2 columns,
10" high by 5" wide

 455 440 420

Page

11" high by 8 1/2 wide

 690 660 625

Insert (loose)

 Up to 11" high by 8 1/2' wide 790 760 720

Insert (bound in) includes collation, assembly, bindery, and special position, but not printing

 Up to 11" high by 8 1/2" wide plus tab

Selected position must be in front of a signature.

 1650 1610 1565

Special guaranteed position

   Add 20% Add 20% Add 20%

Add four color to page or
2/3 page

   Add $500 Add $475 Add $450

Add four color to half page or smaller fractional ad

   Add $250

Add $240

Add $230
Bleed page to 8 1/2 x 11   Add 10% Add 10% Add
10%

Classified ads- $7 per line (35 to 36 characters per line)

   N/A N/A N/A

 

We reserve the right to refuse editorial submissions, advertising, web page links, and listings.

CLASSIFIED

$7 a line (36 characters per line). Classified advertisers also may receive a free listing of their ads at the Web site.

INSERT

Loose 8 1/2" by 11" sheet, one or two sides. Advertiser to supply 4300 printed pieces. Call Neil Wiley, (408) 353-1901 or 353-1546, to discuss mechanical requirements, closing date for materials and other details. Bound-in inserts also available.

SUBSCRIBE

Mountain Network News is mailed free of charge to all households and businesses on all rural routes out of Los Gatos and to all Redwood Estates boxholders. The circulation area includes the Santa Cruz Mountain communities of Lakeside, Lexington and Loma Prieta, including the Summit area, Redwood Estates. Aldercroft Heights, Holy City, Las Cumbres, Skyland, Hutchison Road area, Chemeketa Park and Glenwood.

If you live outside this area, or wish to give a gift of the MNN, a subscription mailed first class anywhere in the USA costs $24 for twelve issues. Call Marlene Wiley at (408) 353-1901 or 353-1546 for information.

The Mountain Network News staff

The MNN Staff: Left to right: First row: editor Deana Arnold, editor Karole Ishida, co-founder and publisher Marlene Wiley, assistant to the publisher Jennifer Straw, and co-founder and creative director Neil Wiley, Second row: co-founder and editor-emeritus Gina Foster, editor Holly Reed, subscription editor Barbara Grimm, and editor Suzanne Overstreet. Third row: Karole’s husband John McBain, subscription editor Bill Grimm,  and Jennifer’s husband Barry Hill.

 

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