The wonderful thing about this past Saturday’s ScienceOnline session on going “from blog to book” is that my co–panelists and I were able to highlight the ways in which the web is becoming increasingly important for authors. The only drawback was that there was so much to talk about that we could not have answered all the questions even if we stayed in session for the rest of the day! Fortunately audience members continued to ask me questions and make comments throughout the rest of the conference, and I wanted to specifically address one comment brought up by the wonderful blogger Stephanie Zvan.

Most of the blog-to-book session focused on using blogs and other web resources to