Our Service is designed with your needs in mind. KFWS is a great way for weeklies and monthlies to increase ad revenue,reduce freelance writing csts and free up staff to work on local projects.
Each week, we package 85 comics, games, puzzles, text features and paginated content and ship it to you in the format that is easiest for you to get to press.
King Features Weekly Service is the premier features provider to weekly newspapers publishing no more than once a week, with more than 1,000 newspapers in our subscriber base.
King Features Weekly Service is headquartered in Orlando, Fla., and is a service of the New York City-based King Features Syndicate (KFS).
The KFWS package is posted online every Friday for downloading at your convenience, offering both camera-ready .pdf files of page layouts (SAU and 9-pica column formats) as well as .txt and .tif files you can use in building your own layouts.
Four paginated layouts of comics and puzzles (three in tabloid size and one in broadsheet) have been added to our regular weekly offering. To see a sample of one of the pages, click HERE. Mockups of all four pages are included in the downloadable KFWS sample.
The basic rate for the online Weekly Service is $15.50 per week (U.S. customers only) including handling. You can opt for hard copy delivery at $16.60 a week (or $21.95 per week for both online and hard copy).
We have no contracts; although we do ask you to sign a subscriber agreement and give us four weeks' notice of cancellation.
The subscription gives you rights to use any or all of the contents of the package in your publication, provide you run it in the week it is intended for.
This fee covers one publication. Additional publications can be added for $6.40 per week.
Compressed for rapid downloading (5mb); some images will look fuzzy.
Special introductory rate!
As an introductory special, you can receive our service for $7.50 a week for the first month. (Again, new U.S. customers only.)
NEW! KFWS Lite
Don't need so many features? Now we offer a 25-feature package of comics, games and text columns for just $10 a week. To view a sample, click HERE.
Looking to save even more? Consider these options:
- Subscribe to MindGym, the games portion of the regular KFWS package. You get 25 crossword puzzles, Sudokus, word and number puzzles, trivia tests and kids' games for $10 a week. To see a sample, click here.
- Try our Weekly Service Lite package of 25 comics, games and text features, also for $10 a week. To see a sample, click here.
