Actually, Steve, this was somewhat the topic of my blog article today,
Authors and eBook Problems: Expanding The Net of Responsibility. I think authors with traditional publishers need to include in their contracts review-before-release rights that let them review all ebook formats before releasing them for consumer consumption. I think both authors and publishers need to share responsibility for assuring that a released ebook is of at least reasonable production quality.
Two recent releases from TOR/Tom Doherty/Macmillan -- Brandon Sanderson's
The Way of Kings and David Weber's
Out of the Dark -- sorely needed such a review before release and these ebooks had to have been created from the electronic files used for the pbooks, not from OCRd copy. I discussed the problems in these books in
On Books: Brandon Sanderson and David Weber — 1 Up, 1 Down and
The Problem Is: Publishers Don’t Read eBooks!