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My experience - there is no standard (and no W3C style entity trying to make one) for eBooks.
Therefore, it is kind of a crap shoot. And, of course, there are various opinions as to what is "proper" formatting. (For example, I still like margins around text - some people like the text butted right up against the display frame.)
Quality overall (purchased or free) - Sony books are decent (I like the margins, the linkages tend to be good as well). The dedicated people here also do a fantastic conversion job. Gutenberg - needs help. Fictionwise - seems to be a crap-shoot. Google - decent.
Because they are eBooks - one would imagine that it would be a global problem - based on the store and/or publisher (not specific continental/geographical home).
Pricing - on average - is about 10% off printed version - most likely to encourage adoption. Unfortunately, I don't really foresee this changing. It's not like iTunes/Napster in the sense that if you buy 15 songs with them for 99 cents - you still paid $15 for a CDs worth of songs. Generally one doesn't buy books chapter by chapter; therefore, the two prices might (most likely) stay very similar.
Hope that helps. I wouldn't mind if I could DL sample chapters from the stores - just to see what it will truly look like on the device - especially if I'm going to purchase the book (I can sample the physical book, you know?).
Cheers,
J
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