I seriously doubt the EE has a higher per-unit profit margin than PE, given that the difference in cost is only $100 and EE has much more screen space and probably a more powerful processor. Even if it does, one would think that a business would favor a product line with higher total profits (rather than the higher marginal profits). If Phillips makes $20 per DVD recorder they sell, vs $1 for every blank DVD, you can bet they're going to give preference to their blank DVD manufacturing if they ever have to make a choice between them.
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Keep in mind that the EE and PE are very similar, so a large portion of the software development put into one will benefit the other because of the (assumed) shared codebase. For example, it doesn't matter which on device you get landscape on the eReader working because the same code and the same app will also work on the other device.
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Then how do you explain Android 2.2 being ported to PE first, with EE users not even given the option of upgrading to 2.2 at that time? If the software were the same, they could tell us that we could upgrade if we wanted to (if we accept the risk of decreased performance that dontpanic warned us about). But it's likely the software isn't really the same.