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It's mainly about fear uncertainty and doubt (FUD) and that's what the companies that are selling DRM technology are counting on. Do you know thousand of people that you would trust emailing a copyright book to? No DRM technology will protect copying from happening it will just make it more difficult for the casual copying to happen. With DRM you can no longer give a copy to your friend when you're done reading the book and in five years the DRM technology might not be around any more so you can't read the book you legally purchased. If that's not important to you then DRM doesn't matter.
I compare it to the newspaper boxes that they used to have on the streets. Most of them you would put in your quarter and you could take one paper or you could take a whole stack of papers and give them to your friends. Most people would only take one. Sure some people would take the whole stack but the loss to the newspaper companies was less then paying for the paperboy to stand at the street corner.
The FUD is that someone will steal all the newspapers and put you out of business but the reality is the people who would do that can break the DRM anyway. If you can read the book it can be copied.
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