Yes the author was writing it and posting to his blog. A lot of people wrote him and asked him to put it no Amazon as a self-written book. I understand it was harder to download from his blog.

He redid parts of it and posted it on Amazon.

When I bought it for my Kindle I paid 99 cents.

Not long after that the price whet up and everything went crazy.

Keep trying on Lord of The Rings. It is an amazing series, different in places from the movies.