NEWS
On ordering Extension’s Parenting Newsletters for distribution in your county.
September 2013
Biggest changes:
1. We now have two printers available, with different levels of flexibility and cost.
2. Your county office no longer needs to purchase a license to reproduce the newsletters.
2 Printers
Badger State Industries (the Portage prison print shop) continues to serve us. Their
prices for both printing and shipping have risen in recent years, but they are still competitive for
bulk orders (50+) of complete sets (i.e. sets of 12 issues of Parenting the First Year). They
continue to be able to customize the back page with your county information. My latest info on
their prices could be wrong, so make the call to check for yourself:
Parenting the First Year (set of 12, 8-page issues)
3.90 / set plus shipping
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Parenting the 2 & 3 Years (set of 12, 8-page issues)
3.90 / set plus shipping
Preparing to Parent (set of 4, 16-page issues)
call for quote
Spanish language editions: same price as for the English editions.
For more information on working with BSI, see item 8a2 in the instructions posted on our
distribution web site: http://fyi.uwex.edu/using-parenting-newsletters/distribution-essentials/
Our contacts for questions on ordering the newsletters from BSI are Kara Jackson (608.240.5211
or kara.jackson@wi.gov) and Leah Lipska (608.240.5258 or leah.lipska@wi.gov).
OneTouchPoint, formerly Coakley Printers (in Waukesha County), is the new printing
option. They are willing to print odd numbers of individual issues of the newsletters. So if you
run short of some issues but not others, this is easily your best printing option. Below I show
you the price quote they gave Extension Publications, but they are new to this and have given
differing quotes to others, so you’d better call them yourself.
Parenting the First Year
$0.32 per issue (= $3.80/ set of 12) plus shipping.
Parenting the 2nd & 3rd Years
$0.32 per issue (= $3.80/ set of 12) plus shipping.
Preparing to Parent
$0.52 per issue (= $2.08/set of 4) plus shipping.
Spanish editions also available.
For more information and a quote, contact john.sternad@1touchpoint.com
Local Printing Option
Of course, you continue to have the option to arrange local printing. This has worked
well in many cases, especially where a hospital has their own print shop. You will need to
purchase the digital copy of the newsletters from Extension Publications. Contact Jim Smith at
608-262-2655 or jim.smith@uwex.edu. When you purchase your own copy, you are allowed to
use the entire back page with localized content (your county Extension logo and numbers, the
names and logos of your partner organizations, local hotline numbers, your return address for
mailing, etc.
From the UWEX Learning Store
You also continue to be able to order the newsletters as an Extension Bulletin (it looks
the same) from our Extension Learning Store ( http://learningstore.uwex.edu ). This is an
excellent option if you need just one or a few sets, for example to mail to your cousin each
month after her baby is born (that’s what I do!) And you also have the option of signing
someone up for free, monthly internet delivery of the newsletters. For that, go to our public
home page: http://parenting.uwex.edu/
No License Fee
Your county Extension office no longer has to purchase the $75 in-state license to print
you own localized sets of the newsletters. Hooray for Extension Publications for making this
change! Note that other organizations in the state still need to pay the license fee, unless they
partner with you, a tangible benefit of working with you.
For all your questions…
…about distributing our Extension parenting newsletters, remember that we have a
website full of resources, as well as tips on how other Family Living Educators have managed
this project. Go to: http://fyi.uwex.edu/using-parenting-newsletters/
And, of course, you can always ask me: dariley@wisc.edu.