Thank you for the note, Forsooth. We are indeed working on this exact issue. A group of us have been working out the best plan for indexes in e-books, and right now we have our production team looking into how these would get built.

Also, I agree that the page numbering mis-match is a hassle. That was not on our hot list, but I'll see if we can escalate the issue. It's coming from the way books have been numbered for decades, with the front matter (table of contents, brief table of contents, credits page, author bios, acknowledgements, full title, half title, and introduction) having Roman numerals and "page one" being the first page after that. The e-book reader sees them all as pages and the software is not smart enough to read the page number, so it offsets the actual page number by the number of pages used in those front matter pieces.

I'm not a production guy, but maybe there's a way to force the software to recognize the true page one of a book. Another alternative would be to move all of the front matter to the back, but then you'll end up hunting for the table of contents and many readers won't find it if we bury it in the back. The alternative that probably makes the most sense to the reader, renumbering the pages to start at 1, 2, 3 instead of i, ii, iii, is the most expensive and time consuming option.

We'll be looking at all of these options as more of our books are converted to e-book format. You shouldn't have to work that hard just to read the book.

Thanks again for sharing your concerns.