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That wouldn't shock me. Publishers have to be scared to death of e-books as piracy is so much easier than with paper books.
Much simpler to upload an e-book to a torrent site, e-mail it to friends and family etc. than to scan in a paper book, or make bootleg copies of paper books etc.
I think it's needless personally. Piracy was (and is) much more rampant in the music industry due to that being a much larger industry than books, and they've survived just fine--though the RIAA would have you believe otherwise.
Don't get me wrong, we need huge advances in ways to fight piracy as we move further into the area of digital media and less tangible product. But DRM that isn't even a speed bump for pirates while being a huge hassle for people who legitimately buy the content is not the way to go.
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