There's increasing hope for books that are born as or on blogs. Jeff Kinney, who originally serialized "Diary of A Wimpy Kid" on a website called Funbrain.com, has joined Julie "Julie and Julia" Powell, Frank "PostSecret" Warren and Tucker "That Horrible Asshole" Max in the ranks of authors who gave away the milk for free and whose cows were subsequently bought: "Diary" has sold 147,000 copies, according to Bookscan. "'There's nothing like holding the weight and smelling the paper," said one dad who bought the book after already having read it online. Mmm, paper! [NYT]