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I think it has a bit to do with the source of where some of the e-book library is coming from: scanning.
A publisher likely doesn't actually do the right thing and keep digital copies of books around for very long, or never had them. So they have to pay someone to scan, OCR, and proofread the scans. Odds are the guy(s) doing this aren't actual editors, and their mind likely goes numb partway through each book and they just aren't catching the errors.
I know every time I scan a book, I read through it twice before I'm confident I've caught /most/ of the errors. I'm betting these scans only go through one read in the OCR software.
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