UNC PRESS ANNOUNCES NEW E-BOOK SERIES UNC PRESS CIVIL WAR SHORTS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Photos available at http://www.ibiblio.org/uncp/media/cwshorts/ UNC PRESS ANNOUNCES NEW E-BOOK SERIES: UNC PRESS CIVIL WAR SHORTS Chapel Hill, N.C.. -- The Univers

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UNC PRESS ANNOUNCES NEW E-BOOK SERIES:

UNC PRESS CIVIL WAR SHORTS

Chapel Hill, N.C The University of North Carolina Press today announced a new series of digital-only books called “UNC Press Civil War Shorts.” These E-Book Shorts are excerpted from best-selling UNC Press books on critical moments of the American Civil War by some of the most respected Civil War historians writing today

“At UNC Press, we pride ourselves on publishing campaign studies that take into account the larger contexts in which Civil War battles were fought But as we developed our program of E-Book Shorts, we were pleased to discover within those longer works tightly written narratives of the battles themselves that work very well as standalone books,” said UNC Press Civil War editor David Perry, who worked with the authors on the original publication of the full books

“Today’s advances in digital content delivery give us great flexibility in how we deliver our content to readers The E-Book Shorts format, delivering readable and engaging accounts of the key battles and other critical moments in the Civil War, is the perfect way

to reach new readers for our books,” said Dino Battista, the Press’s Senior Director of Marketing

“We’re confident that after reading one of these Civil War Shorts, the reader will want more, and be drawn to the fuller treatment in the original work,” Battista continued The first of these E-Book Shorts, which are priced from $2.99 to $9.99, include: The Mortal Wounding of Stonewall Jackson: A UNC Press Civil War Short, Excerpted from

Chancellorsville: The Battle and Its Aftermath, edited by Gary W Gallagher, by Robert

K Krick and; On Pickett’s Charge: A UNC Press Civil War Short, Excerpted from

Pickett’s Charge in History and Memory by Carol Reardon; The Battle of

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Fredericksburg: A UNC Press Civil War Short, Excerpted from Fredericksburg!

Fredericksburg! by George C Rable; and The Battle of Vicksburg: A UNC Press Civil

War Short, Excerpted from Vicksburg: The Campaign that Opened the Mississippi by

Michael B Ballard

These Civil War E-Book Shorts are part of a larger UNC Press initiative to bring Shorts

of other UNC Press books out in other disciplines, including American history, African American history, religious studies, and more Additional UNC Press E-Book Shorts will

be issued in the coming months

Also, UNC Press has announced that it is packaging some of its best-selling books into Omnibus E-Books, collecting several titles into one e-book product, at a special price Currently available Omnibus E-Books include: The Harry Pfanz Gettysburg Trilogy:

which includes Gettysburg: The First Day; Gettysburg: The Second Day; and

Gettysburg: Culp’s Hill and Cemetery Hill by Harry W Pfanz; The Earl J Hess

Fortifications Trilogy: which includes Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War;

Trench Warfare Under Grant and Lee; and In the Trenches at Petersburg by Earl J Hess;

and The Shenandoah Valley Campaigns: which includes The Shenandoah Valley

Campaign of 1862 and The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 edited by Gary W

Gallagher

“We have been positioning ourselves aggressively in recent years for the rising interest in e-books and, more generally, in new modes of publication,” said Mark Simpson-Vos, UNC Press Editorial Director “Given the rapid shifts in readers’ preferences, we’ve worked hard to remain nimble and to deliver our authors’ content in as many forms as possible Our E-Book Shorts and Omnibus E-Book programs are prime examples We’re

in the business of bringing added value to our readers and to our authors, and in a

crowded marketplace, we think it’s important as a university press to be offering our best content in creative ways that can help cut through the noise.”

UNC Press Civil War Shorts and Omnibus E-Books are available from Amazon.com for the Kindle eBook reader, at BarnesandNoble.com for the Nook reader, and at Sony’s ebookstore.sony.com

For more information, visit www.uncpressebookshorts.com

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UNC PRESS CIVIL WAR SHORTS

The Mortal Wounding of Stonewall Jackson: A UNC Press Civil War Short, Excerpted

from Chancellorsville: The Battle and Its Aftermath, edited by Gary W Gallagher

by Robert K Krick

ISBN: 978-0-8078-37108; 38 pp., 6 illus., 2 maps, $2.99

On Pickett’s Charge: A UNC Press Civil War Short, Excerpted from Pickett’s Charge in

History and Memory

by Carol Reardon

ISBN: 978-0-8078-3620-0; 74 pp., $6.99

The Battle of Fredericksburg: A UNC Press Civil War Short, Excerpted from

Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!

by George C Rable

ISBN: 978-0-8078-3622-4; 332 pp., 5 illus., 6 maps, $9.99

The Battle of Vicksburg: A UNC Press Civil War Short, Excerpted from Vicksburg: The

Campaign that Opened the Mississippi

by Michael B Ballard

ISBN: 978-0-8078-3621-7; 177 pp., 10 illus., 2 maps, $9.99

OMNIBUS E-BOOKS

The Harry Pfanz Gettysburg Trilogy

Includes Gettysburg: The First Day; Gettysburg: The Second Day; and Gettysburg:

Culp’s Hill and Cemetery Hill

by Harry W Pfanz

ISBN: 978-0-8078-7281-9; 1648 pp., $75.00

The Earl J Hess Fortifications Trilogy

Includes Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War; Trench Warfare Under Grant

and Lee; and In the Trenches at Petersburg

by Earl J Hess

ISBN: 978-0-8078-7282-6; 1216 pp., $60.00

The Shenandoah Valley Campaigns

Includes The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862; and The Shenandoah Valley

Campaign of 1864

Edited by Gary W Gallagher

ISBN: 978-0-8078-7283-3; 696 pp., $40.00

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