Stuff White People Like is a semi-humorous book from HarperCollins publishing, based upon, and written by the same author of the blog Stuff White People Like.

And turning a blog into a book was a clever idea! Even though hey, the original gets updated every day while the book just sits there on your coffee table, containing the same bit of content all the time and reminding you daily why books are becoming this sort of obsolete medium, at least in regards to pop culture flotsam or what have you but anyway!

Since Christian Lander's What White People Like was so successful, both as a blog and a book (it's still on New York Times bestseller list!), there have been some spin-offs, much in the way the LOLCats has now moved on to dogs, bunnies, and day traders. Stuff Christians Like is the newest incarnation of the meme, and guess what? It's getting it's own book too.

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It's hard to ironically speak for your generation. Or so says Christian Lander, founder of the popular website-cum-book Stuff White People Like, which is not a primer from the National Alliance's Shaun Walker.

In an interview with a New Republic intern (which is definitely something white people like to do), Lander comes off as a pretty grumpy for a guy who just managed to turn his mildly-satirical website into a feature book in under a year:

The concept of anonymous charities is completely lost on this generation. It's like a tree-falls-in-the-forest thing: If a white person does something positive and doesn't tell you about it, does it happen?

Good question, Christian. Keep us updated if you find out.

Well, maybe some of the estimated 10,000 people who bought the book so far were of other races. [Portfolio]

As is wont to happen when foolish corporate players get around to deciding something is hip, again, the publishing industry has begun doling out redonkulous sums to bloggers in exchange for their piecing together sentences that do not include "ZOMG!" or "NSFW." Stuff White People Like's creator scored $300k, but by one estimate, publisher Random House will have to move 75,000 copies of the book in order to break even. (Simon & Schuster learned that math the hard way with Gawker.com's The Gawker Guide to Conquering All Media, which moved an embarrassing 2,000 copies.) So why do publishing houses insist on scooping up authors that almost certainly will lose them money? Because it was in the cards!

In a 2004 New Yorker profile about blogger book deals, the magazine predicted that in two years, "Books by bloggers will be a trend, a cultural phenomenon." Or a giant stain on one industry's track record.