Advertisers:

• Organ Builders
• Book, Music, CD, and Software Companies
• Concert Artists and Artists Managements
• Music Schools, Workshops and Competitions
• Carillon and Handbell Manufacturers
• Music Tours, Music Organizations
• Music Stores, Music Supplies, Choir Robes
• Organ Supplies and Maintenance

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2008 Advertising Rates

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Bleed
No charge for bleed.

Deadline
Closing date for all materials is the 15th of the second preceding month. (January 15 closes the March issue.) All advertising material means purchase orders, camera-ready art, and digital files.

Classified Advertising
Notices cost $6 per line (3-line minimum) payable in advance, no billing. To estimate the size, count 50 characters to a line, including spaces and punctuation. Maximum of 30 characters for caption. Optional Box Service (mail forwarding) available for $3.

The deadline for all Classified Advertising is the 15th of the second preceding month. Closing date for all materials is the 15th of the second preceding month. (January 15 closes the March issue.)

For further information, contact Editor/Advertising Manager at National Headquarters by E-mail, fax, mail or telephone.

Issuance and Circulation
Published monthly, 12 issues per year, on or about the 1st of the month. Circulation of 24,000 includes all members of the American Guild of Organists and the Royal Canadian College of Organists, music schools, libraries, and related arts organizations.

Mechanical Requirements
Printing process is offset lithography on excellent quality paper. The American Organist will not design or typeset advertisements; all ads must be press-ready.

Digital Files (Macintosh or PC/Windows format)
Adobe Acrobat PDF (high resolution, same as original) preferred.

QuarkXpress and Adobe PageMaker or Acrobat files are also accepted under the following conditions:

• Only Type 1 Postscript fonts should be used.
• All fonts must be supplied.
• All graphic files must be included in native application formats as well as EPS or TIFF formats. Grayscale images should be 300 dpi.
• Line art (Bitmap) images should be 1,200 dpi.
• Ads saved as Postscript files are not acceptable.
• Press-optimized PDF files must have fonts embedded.

Proof must be provided for quality assurance:
All files must be accompanied by a proof or hard copy. Reproduction can only be guaranteed if a high-resolution proof can be compared with the digital file.

Disk types accepted
    Zip (100 MB)
    CD-ROM

Ads may also be submitted to Anthony Baglivi by e-mail:
abaglivi@agohq.org

Contract Regulations

• All ads are non-commissionable.
• There are no cash discounts.

Advertising Payments Online
https://agohq.org/store/indexad.html

Contact
Anthony Baglivi
The American Organist Magazine
475 Riverside Dr., Ste. 1260
New York, NY 10115

212-870-2311, ext. 4299
212-870-2163 FAX
abaglivi@agohq.org

Revised on 12/20/07