Mel Bay's "Try Before You Buy"

[Broadus]

I ran across this and thought it worthy of sharing: "Try Before You Buy (http://www.melbay.com/freedownloads/downloads.asp)"--downloadable PDF files of the first 10 pages of a dozen of their instruction books, mostly introductory books.

However, you can download 56 of the 88 pages (http://www.melbay.com/FreeDownloads/93200E.pdf) of the expanded edition of the "Modern Guitar Method." That's a pretty generous "try."

Perhaps other publishers do this, too. It's a great way to see if you may like something. Maybe MB will make available more samples of their books.

BTW, I had to open them in Internet Explorer. Firefox wouldn't work for me, even after downloading the plug-in.

Enjoy!

Bill

[Brent Hutto]

It also does not seem to work if you're using Vista. And it says on the Mel Bay intro page that it does not work with Macs.

P.S. And not to be a curmudgeon...but the purpose of the plug-in is to make the PDF viewable on-screen only. And only if you access it through the Mel Bay web page. And only if you have a live Internet connection active. And you can't print it.

[Broadus]

I'm using Vista (Home Premium--32 bit) and it works with my IE. Too bad it doesn't work with Macs. Don't know what's going on with Firefox.

Bill

[Brent Hutto]

Hmmm, me too. Don't know why it didn't jibe with my IE and Adobe.

[Broadus]

P.S. And not to be a curmudgeon...but the purpose of the plug-in is to make the PDF viewable on-screen only. And only if you access it through the Mel Bay web page. And only if you have a live Internet connection active. And you can't print it.

Interesting. I was going to print some pages so I could work from them till my book/CD/DVD arrived. Free shipping from Amazon.com is not the speediest way to get something! :)

Guess I'll work from the computer display.

Can't complain too much though (I can be as curmudgeon as they come!). At least MB has provided the opportunity to see some of their books so the order is not completely sight unseen.

Bill