Trich on Literary Journal Publishing Companies (seminar)

I learn a lot about publishing companies for literary journals from the seminar. I met 3 people who ran these companies who seemed to be inspired simply by the fact that they enjoy reading literary journals. Each of these company owners receive thousands of literary journal submissions each month. If a company head likes a submission they will let a person know by email. If the company head knows he will be able to sell the literary journal he will buy the rights to the submission from the original writer. When he buys the submission his job is then to publish it and try to sell it to bookstores across the nation. How this works is they make calls to a book store companies headquarters and ask who their buyer is. If they are successful at getting a buyers contact information it is then their job to promote the literary journal and sell it to the book store company. This job is often hard because often times book store companies don't give out their buyers contact info and often times book stores don't even sell literary journals.