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April 4, 2011 01:15 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/c3GZb3B7908/NYT-Paywall-Cost-40-Million-How
NYT Paywall Cost $40 Million: How?
An anonymous reader submits this musing from Philip Greenspun's blog: "Aside from wondering who will pay more than the cost of a Wall Street Journal subscription in order to subscribe to the New York Times, my biggest question right now is how the NY Times spent a reported $40-50 million writing the code (Bloomberg; other sources are consistent). Google was financed with $25 million. The New York Times already had a credit card processing system for selling home delivery. It already had a database management system for keeping track of Web site registrants. What did they spend the $40-50 million on?" Maybe the folks behind CityTime were free on weekends. 
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