Practical Plone 3 (pre review)

I've just started reading Practical Plone 3 which touts itself as a beginners' guide which teaches you how to get a working Plone site up and running quickly if you don't want to get involved in programming.

It's got an impressively long list of 13 authors including Martin Aspeli and Jon Stahl, with each author being responsible for individual chapters.

This seems like a good idea on the face of it as the combined knowledge and experience of that many people has got to be broader than that of a single author. But will it suffer from a lack of consistency as a result and will that affect the message?

I don't know yet but I'll post the answers here as soon as I do.