Purging ePub info from iTunes application to correct meta data typo

I prepared ePubs using both Stanza and calibre.
On one of them I made a typo of the author's name. Fixing it in iTunes did not fix it - makes sense, since it is different meta data.
So I deleted the book, and fixed the ePub meta data in Stanza, and also checked it in calibre.
However, when I load it back into iTunes, the old meta data does not seem to want to go away. How do I fix it?

Wow. The mystery is revealed, and it is a strange twist indeed. I consider this a bug in iTunes. This is what is happening:
When you drag an epub file and drop it in your iTunes library, iTunes:
1. looks in the /META-INF/container.xml file inside the epub file (a folder/file of this name is required by the epub standard);
2. reads, from the container.xml file, the the location of the "rootfile" of the epub (this ENTRY is also required by the epub standard) -- for example, it might be something like:
<rootfile media-type="application/oebps-package+xml" full-path="11231/content.opf"/>
3. reads various "metadata" from the content.opf file (in this example--this file name is arbitrary), including author name and book title;
4. creates standard iTunes directories inside your "~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music" hierarchy -- e.g.
"/Users/trevor/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Herman Melville/Unknown Album"
5. COPIES the epub file into this directory, LEAVING the original epub wherever you had it saved;
6. ADDs a file called "iTunesMetadata.plist" to the COPY of the epub that it has just saved into the iTunes hierarchy;
AND -- and this is the unexpected, buggy, bizarre, part -- THEN
7. ADDs the same "iTunesMetadata.plist" file to the ORIGINAL epub file.
The iTunesMetadata.plist file contains info on author and title of the book and since it has now unexpectedly been added to your ORIGINAL epub file, without any notice to you, it gets copied back into iTunes every time you drag and drop the ORIGINAL. Even if you modify the author/title metadata in the normal epub locations (this info is stored in the rootfile), the iTunesMetadata.plist NEVER gets updated.
Real Solution: Apple must fix this bug.
Workaround:
1. open terminal;
2. navigate to wherever your ORIGINAL epub is;
3. zip -d NameOfYourePubFile.epub iTunesMetadata.plist
(substitute the real name of your epub where appropriate above)

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