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Take J.K. Rowling for example, her books are all available on the net as illegal copies because she didn't want to release legal copies. The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings are also available as illegal copies yet they are selling now that they are legal. Rowling is losing lots of money due to her shortsightedness.
The people that share eBooks already know how to strip away the DRM. So all you are doing is bothering your paying customers. Charge a fair price without DRM and if the books are any good, they will sell. Also, your costs will be lower as you won't have to pay to have DRM added. But in the end, it is your choice to have DRM. It's the wrong choice, but still your choice.
If you plan on offering these to everyone, then you'll need to do so in every format and there are costs associated with DRM. You might not be able to use the nice easy tools provided in Calibre to do the conversions. eReader is a bother DRM or not anyway (at present). But feel free to add in the extra work.
Thinking of your customers as crooks is not going to endear yourself to them and they'll just go online to get them for free without DRM since you don't care about them.
So if I get annoyed at your DRM, does that make me want to copy your books?
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