What kinds of Books are pirated and made into EBooks?

I ask this question because I wonder what the real effect is on the marketplace from pirating.
Who pirates?
What do they pirate?
What do they do with the pirated material?
What are the actual changes in the number of books bought as the result of the piracy.
I'd be interested in some statistics from surveys on some of these questions. Even anecdotal evidence would be interesting.
Let me give you some personal experience. 
I obtain free EBooks whenever I can. I don't know if I'm like most EBook collectors, but this is what I do. I collect them. I collect them in any subject that interests me. They are about half and half, technical and fiction (Novels). They are probably half and half legal and not. I'm not concerned if they are legal or not. The technical ones I keep for reference and rarely read or even refer to them. The novels I collect mostly just to have, but have read a few. I am among the very few people who don't mind reading on a laptop or even on my cell phone. With one or two exceptions, I would not have bought any of the technical books as either print books or EBooks. The novels I would have bought as thrift shop books, if available. I would not have purchased any of the novels for bookstore pr
 ices either in soft or hardback. Neither would I have purchased them as EBooks unless in maybe the 50 cent range with no DRM and with great presentation in the way of fonts, layout and visual, audio and even video added content. The one irritation I have is that more material is not available in EBook form. Typically, the things available are the popular items. Harry Potter and big fat Wiley reference books. Anything esoteric isn't available. I'm not interested in copying and distributing books or selling them. I do, however, count on others doing so. The only exceptions to this are owners and operators and service manuals for airplanes and other recreational craft that I do copy and share for free.
So what does this mean for publishers? Using me as an example, I would suppose the following:
If your work is not mass market, it won't be copied, and I won't be able or willing to collect it.
If your work is mass market, it will be copied and I'll collect it, but I wouldn't have bought it anyway.
I'm not in the market for any of your new printed book or EBook sales at present prices, so you're not losing any sales to me.
How many people are like me?
Of all the copied files, how many people would have bought a legal copy?
How many get a copy and also buy one in print or EBook form?
Comments?

Bill



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