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Eh. "Pirates" aren't a hive mind, or monolithic, or whatever of the kind.
It's been said repeatedly already, but let me try another spin of the phrasing:
The people who pirate on principle, publishers and authors don't lose money on, because they would not buy the books in the first place.
Lost sales include cases of "I wanted to buy this, but wasn't allowed to due to georestrictions", or "I'd like to buy that book, but I don't buy anything with DRM on principle", or "I don't buy any ebook costing more than X". Some of those people may turn to piracy to read the book, rather than neither buying nor reading it.
If you fix the problems that drive people in the second group to pirating (or that they use to justify it, depending on the individual), you reduce piracy for a book, but you can't get rid of it entirely, because it doesn't touch the pirates-on-principle at all.
They don't matter.
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