Not really. They created their own business by creating an artificial monopoly called copyright. The government enforced and defended their monopoly enabling them to profit. It was never sustainable, and now the forces of reality are crushing the scheme. Information wants to be free, much as gravity makes the apple fall to the ground, and RNA has created the entire ecosystem on this planet simply to sustain and replicate itself.

The publishers are really no different than, say, printers with their DRM ink. Is it unfair that their business can no longer benefit from an enforced monopoly? Let me get out the world's smallest violin for this one.