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The problem is, ebooks are normally derived from the files which were used to create the paper book which often have formatting applied to them which is specific to the physical books text block size, so things which were correct (manually inserted hyphens, forced line breaks) become incorrect (hyphen in the middle of a word, spurious paragraph break), in addition to glitches from poor conversion methodologies.
The answer of course is to tag the book in a rich, unambiguous markup format up-front such as TEI, then convert to other formats (and when errors are found, always correcting the source), but this requires an extra step which is hard to justify financially.
William
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