Launched in June after the publication of Ryan Garry mystery author of smoke application, which is sold exclusively through iTunes for $ 4.99, includes the full text of the novel, as well as additional features such as photographs of locations in Calgary, where the story unfolds.

Application of smoking is an anomaly for the latest news, recently scanned her list by the Publishers Association of Canadian Publishers Canadian initiative Digital Services, but has yet to make its titles available at major retailers like Amazon e-books, Apple and Kobo.

NeWest general manager Paul Matwychuk says Ryan initiated the project. “We’re so small that we don’t have some kind of app development department in-house,” Matwychuk says. “It was a special case of an author who was energized by the new technology and, with our blessing, went ahead and executed this project on his own.”

The application is a test case, according Matwychuk: the ultimate goal is to do something more complex for future titles Ryan. “Our hope is that the written request] [Ryan and the world of Detective Lane to a new set of readers,” he said