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I don't know about those, but I think that Amazon's book database is getting to be a mess. I emailed them the other day because when I search for John Scalzi's "Zoe's Tale", I get 3 listings, one of which is "not currently available", with 3 different ASINs, and 2 different prices. How are we supposed to know which is the best/most current? Why aren't the old ones removed? There has to be a better way for them to manage this.
I was thinking the other day that maybe they were keeping old versions because of the bookmarks/notes situation: if you have copy A of a book, and your bookmarks/notes are at location x, but if the book were updated, your bookmarks/notes would not match the locations. I think this problem could be overcome, though, by keeping the extra revisions of the book unlisted, and just track them for re-download, or come up with a mechanism to tell the user that their bookmarks might be out of date, or something.
One of the great possible benefits of ebooks is that you should theoretically be able to dynamically update the books if there are corrections, but they don't seem to be doing this at Amazon.
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