$99 is crazy expensive for a book about a topic that's heavily covered and widely available for free online or usually at most $25 in book form.
~1500 people disagree with you and some of them bought both books ($99 and $250).
Yes, a lot of online tutorial and snippets. No argument here. Not a lot of material to build a complete project. The value is in "Fractured" vs "Whole" knowledge tree.