Amazon's New Kindle eBook

I searched quite a few Web stories on the release of the latest eBook venture—and found most of them very positive.

However, on each review or news story, I used the Find command to try to locate any mention of indexing, with no success.

So here's my Question of the Week: If/When the Kindle or a successor replaces at least a portion of hard copy publishing, will publishers hire indexers to create indexes for Kindle books or will users rely on the search capability built into the software? If it is strong search software capable of Boolean and proximity searching, will an index really be needed?

In the interim, with 90% of the New York Times bestseller lists already available for Kindle, I would assume that any of the non-fiction titles on the list with hard copy indexes, would have the same indexes in the eBook version. But is that necessarily true?

Anyone bought a Kindle?