I think that the major issue facing content producers is not pirating books it’s this:
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9. Discoverability becomes HOT – Amid glut of content, discovery will become the new obsession of publishing. Publishers of all sizes will begin to realize obscurity is the biggest threat facing their business. Solution: maximize availability of product, leverage metadata, create books that resonate with readers, enlist fans as extension of sales force.
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Instead of alienating paying readers with DRM, authors/publishers should be introducing their works in legal formats and as superior products. It is much easier to explain that the purchased copy has high resolution cover art, working Table of Contents, great formatting, etc. in my opinion.
I am very much in favor of killing DRM off...therefore I read a lot of these threads/blogs/etc to gather information. In each and every one of the blogs that I have read, there are always comments by authors complaining about pirates. But guess what? I would have never heard of these authors if they hadn't commented on the blog site (would I count as a lost sale?). I even found several new books & authors (which I purchased) while digging through moaning and groaning comments. And although I severely disagree with Steven Lyle Jordan regarding his take on the future of DRM, more than likely I will purchase a couple of his books for my mom for her birthday (I'm more fantasy, not Sci-Fi). I would have NEVER heard of Steven Lyle Jordan if not for MobileRead.