Amazon offers free downloads of government documents to the Kindle

Now this is good use of the Kindle’s wireless capability. From the press release:

Amazon.com … today announced that the Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2011, and Economic Report of the President, will both be available beginning [Friday] as free wireless downloads in Amazon’s Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore) … “Our customers have always been heavy readers of books about current events and economic issues,” said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President, Kindle Content. “Now they can download these important public government documents in under 60 seconds and read them in the easy and portable format that Kindle affords.”

The only problem is that, at least for the Budget, nobody will be able to understand it.