As a technical exercise, the typos in a commercially published ebook do make sense. Publishers usually follow a long and linear process of converting text from one format to another until the *final* version only exists in a special formatting program like InDesign or FrameMaker, not a standard text file like Word or Rich Text.
So when they export to a non-print-ready format, like Epub or Mobi, they're going to get all sort of administrative formatting garbage in the file. I would hope that they would have a proofer check specifically for this issue, but apparently they aren't doing a great job of it right now.
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