IBooks/iBA quirky behavior

I already sent a note to the iBA Team, but I figured you may want to be alerted to the follow problem:
I created a test document in iBooks Author and use the connected iPad Preview mode to view the documents. Within the iBooks document, I can easily annotate it. That works well. Now if I go to iBA and modify the text, possibly adding or removing some content, and preview on the iPad once more the content appropriately adjusts. However, the notes created on the iPad remain locked in their original physical location at the time they were individually created. There seems to be no ability to move these notes or completely purge them.
I thought that deleting the title from iBooks, removing the iBooks2 icon from the list of multi-task items, doing a cold reboot (pressing power and home button for several seconds) should be enough to completely flush those uber sticky notes. Unfortunately it is not.
Although this quirky behavoir only appears on the iPad and not the iBA software, this is going to present a problem to authors and publishers, should they ever tweak their published content in the slightest (such as fixing a typographical error after the title has already made it's way to the iBooks Store). If this is not corrected everybody loses, starting with the customer. It's an embarrassment to Apple, the publisher, and the author. Frankly, the only one to gain from this is Amazon/Kindle.

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