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Anytime you have two formats, the only way to ensure quality is to perform two complete proofreads, one for each format. With print books, even if you have a digital copy of the book, at some point it is typeset, and these galleys are then proofread at least once and sometimes twice. Any changes made at that point must be incorporated into the digital copy. (And vice-versa!) Either the conversion house or the publisher needs to do a complete proofreading.
At my job, we often have print and electronic versions of a publication, and each is subjected to a separate proofreading process and changes to one format is incorporated into another. It's really the only way to ensure quality. As time goes on we are going more and more completely electronic.
I will add that when Harlequin (which is one of the clueful pubs in regard to ebooks, at least) was republishing some of Georgette Heyer's backlist a few years ago, the first few releases were riddled with errors. I suspect they scanned and OCRed old copies of her books and used that text and didn't proofread it carefully. Readers complained and the quality improved in later releases in the series. I don't really read their books, so I wonder if the quality is still good in recent ebooks? It's easier with new releases, though, as you have a decent digital copy to start with.
Of course, if we had non-DRMed ePub books, we could fix 'em ourselves if we cared.
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