I had been looking at the custom post types that were added in WP 2.9 and fleshed out in WP3, but they still don’t offer the sort of database control I’m hoping for with a book publisher’s website. I started to look at Flutter, but I think it’s not been updated in a while…
There’s a fork of Flutter called Magic Fields that seems to be updated for WP 2.9; so I’m attempting to use that for the initial setup, will report back how well it functions; but so far the ability to create custom post types with their own properties / image uploaders seems to be the thing I’m looking for…