@Idealien - Yes, the entire chapter is mainly about installing and customizing ClassiPress along with a selection of plugins that in the end, creates a fully functional classified ads website which was the entire point of the chapter. What I meant by my statement that you quoted was that books such as WordPress For Dummies or WordPress For Beginners and many other books simply tell you how to install plugins and themes and that's it. Just the basics. This book on the other hand tells you specific themes and plugins to install and use to come up with a particular use case of WordPress which the sample chapter was an example of.

I thought the book was a great example of simply providing the ingredients necessary to create specific kinds of sites with WordPress, themes and plugins. While there might be better ways to accomplish the same thing e.g. Custom Post Types, I think this kind of book at least opens up the floodgates for creativity for many out there that didn't know WordPress could be used for these types of sites.

As for the affiliate link, this post is not a full blown review of the book and I have not read the entire book, just the sample chapter and the table of contents. I figured if I was going to post news about a WordPress book, why not put an affiliate link on it.

By the way, since adding the various WordPress books to the Tavern store and talking about them quite a bit, no one has made any purchases for books through this website. At least not through any affiliate links. I think this crowd is too smart for books :P