It sort of seems like it's massively in Amazon's interest if it does, right? They want eBooks to catch on like MP3s did, and the way to do that, it turns out, is a decade of massive piracy before the publishers finally give in.
I don't know if it's in Amazon's interest or not, but at least from my experience at Rutgers, it's more than true. Internal file sharing networks had PDF versions of nearly every textbook used in the CS and Math departments...