Valancourt Books is hiring! We have countless great books we'd like to publish, we just need people to help with typing them (or in some cases scanning and proofreading from PDFs).
The fine print: Unfortunately, we can't afford to pay cash to people who want to help us with this. However, you will receive a free copy of the published version of whichever book you work on, PLUS (this is the good part), $100 credit toward purchase of Valancourt books of YOUR CHOICE, per volume that you type! So, if, for example, you chose to type Eleanor Sleath's Who's the Murderer? (1802), which is four volumes, you'd receive a free copy of that book once it's published, plus $400 credit toward Valancourt books of your choice (based on their retail price). You'll also be acknowledged in the published book for your wonderful help, so that fifty years down the line when someone stumbles across the book in a library and opens it up, they'll know who spent many long hours typing it.
So if you love our books but find you can't afford all of them, this is a great way to stock your library for free by doing some rather boring typing in your free time (or while bored at work, etc.)
The catch? Nope, no catch. And in fact, your typing doesn't even have to be perfect, a few typos are inevitable and totally ok -- we'll catch them when we proofread.
If interested, please email us at gothic (at) valancourtbooks.com and let us know who you are, how much time you think you might have to devote to this, and anything else you'd like to tell us. We look forward to hearing from you!
P.S. (9 October 2007) -- It occurred to me that one minor point wasn't clear: the $100 credit would be applied to books AND shipping. So if you had $100 in credit and the shipping cost was $7, you'd end up with $93 worth of books. (We'd love to give free shipping, but postage costs have gone through the roof!)
