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You know, a CEO is hired to set strategy for 5-10 years into the future. Obviously, this one is not succeeding at the task. He confuses one time charges with continuing costs. I really would like to know what company he is CEO of, it will make a great short over the next few years...
I would like to ask this CEO, how did Project Gutenberg get to where it is, with 27,000 separate downloads available, for free, funded by volunteers? (I am a contributor to the public domain, both by scanning/OCRing public domain texts and writing new texts directly released into the public domain.) Or look at the downloads available on MobileRead. If it weren't for the continual extentions of the Berne convention, these sources would be much bigger. It's real and it's there. You should give it a look and see what your "Free Market" competitors are capable of doing. Note: these are legal Public Domain e-books, not darknet pirated editions still under copyright. But those exist also.
This is capitalistic "Creative Destruction" at it's finest. You only choice is adapt or die. Frankly, I'm betting in your companies' case on the latter.
Ralph Sir Edward
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