Stroke the ego

I received an unsolicited email from a publishing company in Germany today.  They want to publish my Reed thesis.  Looking into it a bit further, this company works on a print-on-demand basis and seem to specialize in picking up all those obscure, little theses that very few people actually have any interest in (like mine).  They give a small royalty to the author when a copy is sold.

Now, putting aside the fact that my thesis really isn’t all that great, which makes this seem like a bit of a scam to begin with, I’m just hesitant to believe in something that is unsolicited but promises money, supposedly takes no financial input, etc., etc.  I did a bit of searching online and other people have had the same question, and the overall response has mostly been a cautious “why not,” because it seems that this company actually does do what it says it does. 

However, picking back up the fact that my thesis really isn’t all that great, I’m not sure I want to worry about someone accidentally thinking it might help them in their work.  Realistically, I don’t think that there are that many academians interested in the dispossession of musicians in the Celtic fringe four hundred years ago.  But still, I don’t want to risk someone finding it!  Besides, if someone *really* wants my thesis, I’m pretty sure that they can borrow Reed’s copy through ILLN.

At least this has made for an interesting fifteen minutes.