Options for publishing

Doing it as a book:
Make money on it.
Protection of content
Getting content gets harder, especially for finding pictures

Doing it as both:
Get much more content contributions, get stories
Get lots of feedback
Costs money to maintain website
Take times to respond to feedback
Helps convince publisher the validity of publishing
Can income be generated off website itself?
More fame
Possible legal troubles.
Website may end up being richer in scope than book, because of contributions.