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I don't care about being able to lend, give away or re-sell my ebooks but I do care about being able to read them on the device of my choice, backing up my library so I don't run the risk of losing access if a format becomes obsolete, printing out recipes from my cookbooks, etc.
DRM imposes unreasonable and unnecessary restrictions on my ability to make fair use of my purchased ebooks, supposedly for the purpose of preventing piracy and illegal file sharing, which it actually does little or nothing to prevent.
So, what's the point? Do publishers know or care what happens to an ebook once they've sold it to a consumer provided it isn't illegally copied and distributed. I don't think so nor do I see any reason why they should.
I can certainly say in my own case that I'd buy far fewer ebooks if I couldn't buy DRM-free editions or get rid of the DRM on those books that have it.
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