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A few months ago I purchased an ebook novel published by a Penguin subsidiary. The formatting, spelling, and grammar were so bad it completely spoiled the reading experience. The author's email address was published in the book, so I wrote to him about it. He knew all about the problems, and was definitely not a happy chappy. Apparently an early rough draft had been published instead of the final approved version. And it took months before the correct version made its way through the system.
On average there was more than one error on every page, and not just formatting errors. There were question marks at the end of sentences which were not questions, missing apostrophes, incorrect apostrophes, spelling errors, homonym errors ("the souls of his feet" was a good one), and grammatical errors.
I haven't bothered to download the book again to check if the faults have been fixed, since I don't intend to re-read it.
That was one of the worst examples I've seen, although a recent download of another book is even worse. Most of the other books I've read have only had occasional spelling errors, but numerous formatting errors. About 90% are non-fiction books.
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