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The Battalion
Monday, December 7,1!
Two Aggies offer students
different kind of bookstore
By JULI PHILLIPS
Reporter of THE BATTALION
Tired of the high textbook
prices and selling them back for
comparatively small amounts,
two Texas A&M students have
opened a business to offer stu
dents an alternative to the book
stores.
Neal Kirk, a senior computer
science major from San Antonio,
and Tim Hall, a junior geogra
phy major from Dallas, have
named their business "The Book
Match."
The inspiration for the busi
ness came when he saw a flier
asking $35 for a book he had just
purchased for $70, Kirk said.
"I hardly had any money, so
when I saw that, I was really
mad," Kirk said. "Then I began
to think that I should sell my
own books, and then I thought,
'Hey, I can sell everybody's
books.'"
Right now, high book prices
and low return at the end of the
semester is the status quo. Hall
said. Although Kirk and Hall
will be taking a percentage of
the profits (20 percent or $5,
whichever is the lesser amount),
the pair says this system'will
still save everyone a lot of mon
ey.
"That's the status quo, but we
want to change it and make this
RICHARD S. IAMES/The Battalion
Neal Kirk and Tim Hall operate a book locating service to help
students find people who are selling the books they want to buy.
the status quo," Hall said. "We
want to save everyone a ton of
money and stop the rip off."
"The Book Match" works
through a data base and net
works people who want to sell
books with people who want to
buy books. Students can name
their selling and buying prices.
"It's a free market enter
prise," Kirk said. "The books
that are priced cheaper are the
first books bought."
To use the service, students
call Kirk and Hall and give them
the title, author, edition of the
book to be sold or bought, the
class for which it was or will be
used, the approximate price at
which they would like to sell or
buy the book, and their name
and phone number.
No handling of books is nec
essary until a match is made,
and even then "The Book
Match" offers free pickup and
delivery. "The Book Match" is
ready for fall books and spring
orders and will be open during
Christmas.
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THANK YOU FOR A GREAT SEMESTER
GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR FINALS
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