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Not really, C.I.
There are companies like Baen and O'Reilly (the examples I use the most) who sell DRM-free ebooks for quite reasonable prices, and sell enough of them to make a very significant profit. There are also publishers here on MR, indies who do small or POD print runs as well as ebooks, who are willing and able to sell their ebooks below the prices of their printed books. I buy books from them.
Publishers don't try to pay the costs of HCs from the sale price of MM paperbacks; why should they pay them from the sale price of ebooks?
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