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I think part of the problem with piracy of ebooks is not just the DRM or the price, but often availability and accuracy of text as well. Sometimes a person wants to read books by author x on their ereader and finds that though he/she has written x many books that only a few are as yet ebooks and sometimes the publishers (from other threads I've read) don't appear to care about quality of the product when it goes to ebook format. The supply problem is something that each author (or their estate) has to resolve with the publisher, but the issue of quality should be on the minds of the publishers already. Most people if given the choice between an expensive error ridden 'official' copy and a darknet copy that's free of the errors are going to go with the darknet copy. You can hold a hardcover copy of a book in your hands and feel its weight and consider yourself to have gotten your moneysworth, but there is nothing to hold with an ebook file. The only weight is that of the reader itself so people expect it to be cheaper priced. Just basic psychology I think.
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