NJIT-Rutgers-UCONN Students Launch Online Project<br>
        <p>[Newark, NJ]-January 20, 2004-This semester, a joint team of students from NJIT, Rutgers, and UCON has launched <a href=http://www.collegexchanges.com>www.collegexchanges.com</a>, a project intended to reduce expenses on books and maximize revenue. Students no longer need to wait in lines to buy over priced used books or sell old books at quarter their price.</p>
<p><a href=http://www.collegexchanges.com>College X Changes</a> is absolutely free to use and is thought to become a change in the way students buy and exchange books. Equipped with a very powerful yet flexible <a href=http://www.collegexchanges.com/browser.aspx?lft=Category,University,City,State>search engine</a> students can search within their state, city, or campus. Joseph El Helou, project manager, explained "College X Changes is a very well organized searchable bulletin board; an electronic version of the bits of papers lining your university's hallways. It is perfect for selling and buying any kind of school material", he also noted "we also made listing books extremely easy by creating an interface that only requires the ISBN number and takes care of collecting information on the book by itself."</p>
<p>This is the most serious attempt taken by students to share material without benefiting outside companies. <a href=http://www.collegexchanges.com>College X Changes</a> was officially launched on Jabuary 15th 2005, Karl Yang, project researcher, conceived the site as a medium to connect students that need or possess a book. When asked what makes College X Changes different from other services such as ebay or half.com he said "we created an absolutely free service that does not charge any commission. But most importantly you will not need to wait for shipping or receive an item in a non satisfying condition, College X Changes works just like bulletin boards; it allows students to find each others the actual exchange can happen in person or however they want it."</p>
To start listing or buying, or to help with this project please visit <a href=http://www.collegexchanges.com>www.collegexchanges.com</a><pr>
To learn more about the project please visit <a href=http://www.collegexchanges.com/present.aspx>www.collegexchanges.com/present.aspx</a></br>
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