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... thinking about it, there really isn't anything authors/publishers can do about e-book piracy anyway. Obviously DRM doesn't work. It creates a hassle for legitimate purchasers and does nothing to prevent piracy. I highly doubt any company will be able to create a DRM scheme that can't be cracked in a matter of months.
And let's face it... pirated e-books existed well before the commercial e-book industry took off. Even if it was impossible to crack DRM, pirates can (and will) still just grab a copy of a book from the library, scan it, and send it off to one of the pirate groups that fix OCR errors.
According to TOR and Baen (one very large genre publisher and one very small genre publisher, neither of whom use DRM) piracy hasn't impacted their bottom line at all.
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