In this chapter you've added your very first products in Magento, congratulations! Having to go through a complete chapter just to add one simple product seems a lot of information and an ineffective process. However, you'll soon learn to quickly create products by just repeating these steps for a couple of products.
In the next chapter we'll go one step further. Magento offers other product types as well, which enables you to sell more complicated products. However, a good knowledge of the simple products is mandatory to be able to follow along.