Now that we've resigned the future of printed literature to picture books for adults, we might as well get some good ones: Hipster Puppies are exactly what they sound like. SnookiShop needs to be experienced to be fully appreciated, however.

Our video guy Richard Blakeley and his ladyfriend Jessica Amason, the Larry and Althea Flynt of junk-food porn, have a book deal! HarperStudio has purchased publishing rights to Tumblr This Is Why You're Fat.

When the book for the Stuff White People Like blog was sold for a reported $300,000, everyone laughed and cried and wondered how the rushed-to-print blog-to-book would do on the open market. Answer: New York Times bestseller. [Portfolio's Mixed Media]

Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free? The question applies to blogs (free content) that will soon be turned into books (content you pay for), as well as one-night stands! An as-yet-untitled book by blogger Lizzie Skurnick, based on her Jezebel column about classic children's/young adult literature, just sold to HarperCollins. Which got us thinking: how will the most recent blog-to-book deals sell when they are turned into blogs on paper, bound between two covers? From e-mailing moms to cats doing silly things, we round up some of the recent blog-to-book deals and ask ourselves: want, or do not want?

Lord knows I can't do math or read Venn diagrams, or interpret any graphs at all. If my life depended on that, I'd probably be dead. But commenter MisterHippity made another version of this diagram, about books by bloggers, and the people who read them. Is it more accurate? You tell me!

From the Skwib, a graph called "The Economies of Despair." Lesson learned? The people who read books intersect only vaguely with people who read blogs, or people who buy books written by bloggers.