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@rhaden has pointed out one factor that I ignored in my list. For many years, I have purchased mostly paperbacks. I read them and my wife reads them. Then they go to my daughter and/or to a friend in a distant city who reads them. Ultimately they are turned over to a library or sold in a rummage sale where they are presumably read several more times. With DRM, there is no effective sharing, legally, outside of the limited scheme of Amazon which assumes everyone owns a Kindle.
So has this increased my purchase of eBooks or pBooks? Not at all. Many of the eBooks I read are free copies in the public domain or given by authors in exchange for an honest review. I continue to support the pBook industry by purchasing a few paperbacks to share, but not as many. I avoid DRM books as much as possible. I have increased my pBook library reading. Because of, and not in spite of, DRM, my reading purchases have actually decreased and I am not sharing and receiving as many purchased pBooks as in the past.
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