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The other thing is unnecessary typos from "real" publishers. I am reading Rex Stout's Three Doors to Death right now, from Random House, and some of the typos leave me really puzzled trying to figure them out. I get that they were scanned and OCRed but I don't get why the final text, and the scan, are not compared by hand and corrected. It could even be outsourced off-shore; I can't imagine it would add more than $200 or so to the ebook production which is easily amortized over any realistic sales demand.
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Why go offshore. I am sure alot of retired people or the just plain picky would jump at the chance to proof read ebooks for a very small sum.
Free books to read, something useful to do with their computer, passing the time and a sense of accomplishment are just a few of the benefits to the elderly proofreader.
A publisher could shop out the same book to two people and ask for a plain text output and compare the versions with software. Then have them formatted by the same people or others.
An added advantage to hiring the elderly is that they might be less inclined to put the book on the darknet
And of course many typos are easily spotted with a good word processor.
Perfection may be unattainable but I am sure it would be easy and cheap to come close.
I am pretty sure the first to do this will have a reliable trustworthy group of proofreaders in no time flat.