Experience not necessary. Ideal if you want to work from home. (You need the American English version if you live in the USA.) Rates of pay you can earn as a freelancer. Competent proofreaders and/or copyeditors can earn around £600 a week ($US 1,080), and more than this when experienced.  

Current Rates are around £14.00 GBP per hour. You normally have to read only about 10 pages per hour to earn this. 

Rates for top copyeditors and proofreaders can be as much as £20.00 per hour! 

The course run by Freelancers.co.uk is in four parts. The first part  
(MS1) is the information section, circa 25,000 words. Concepts of editing and proofreading are explained in precise detail, with examples of styles preferred by publishers, layout, spellings, common mistakes, etc. This section contains all the essential information you will need to know.  

The second part (MS2) is a short manuscript or typescript as you would see it after it has been copyedited. It's entitled Santorini – A Greek Island. The third part (PS1) is a set of proofs of MS2 (the story about the Greek island), which you can work on, after you learn all you need to know from the first part of the course (MS1). 

Finally, you can compare your work with PS2 (the corrected proofs), which shows you all the errors/corrections you should have noticed, together with comprehensive notes. 

PS2 also contains a self-assessment Scorecard to measure your skills. Two FREE editing pens are included with the course. (A red pen for proofreading corrections, and a blue pen for editorial corrections.)  

NB: All info and details of how to contact publishers for work are included.