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[email protected]. The Student NFL and Newspaper NBA rookies of Florida International compared to University legends. 8 THE BEACON Vol. 17, Issue 27 WWW.BEACONNEWSPAPER.COM December 6, 2004 Trading system to eliminate book costs previous trades to order their college kids.” books. The website is being pro- Credits are gained and lost moted at 4,000 colleges nation- depending on whether a student wide and will reach an estimated sends or receives a book. No 9-13 million college students money is exchanged through by 2006. the system. DeSantis and Nagle are also Students can also receive a working on a system where $5 credit for each friend they teachers can post the books they recruit to the website, which will use in their classes. they receive as a check at the “Basically,” said Nagle, end of the month. “bookstores make too much Books are graded on a seven- money off [the student]. We degree system, ranging from know what it’s like to sell a book brand new to poor.