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Regarding quality of ebooks, I have also had problems but only with non-academic publishers. I've bought from both Amazon.com and Sony's digital bookstore for some general non-fiction books and the quality has been bad. In Amazon's case, I asked for a refund for both items and they gave it to me.
With regards to academic publishers, their ebooks so far have been tip-top quality. I think academic publishers might have to worry about accuracy more since their reputation as a proper academic press is at stake whereas perhaps the audience for most general fiction and non-fiction books don't worry so much about the reputation of the publishers. In the academic world, where you publish your book matters. For instance, an anthropology book published by University of Chicago press is going to have a higher reputation than one published by say University of Florida press.
And also, maybe academic publishers have been in the line of publishing digital versions of their works a bit longer than the general publishers? Academic presses have been both doing digital editions and paper editions of many of their journals for a while now.
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