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Part of the reason for these typos is that, until recently (I would guess), many publishers didn't put that much effort into it. I talked to someone from one of the publishers at San Diego ComicCon last year (I want to say it was Penguin, but I don't remember for sure). The woman I talked to seemed pretty enthusiastic about ebooks, but she admitted that they were way behind on producing them because they had ONE person in the entire company who handled converting things into ebooks.
Another problem is the format. Not all publishers natively support all ebook formats. I emailed Harper Collins about some typos I found in the Septimus Heap ebooks from eReader.com. Their reply said they would look into it, but they would have to get eReader.com to take care of it, because they only supported ePub natively. The actual conversion to PDB format is apparently handled by eReader.com.
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