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The English language is rapidly approaching a million words. However, experts disagree on what exactly constitutes a "word." The Global Language Monitor uses proprietary software to monitor word use and popularity.

Tucked away in libraries across the country are unexpected archives and world-class treasures, including nurse romance novels, forgers and other frauds, and painted books.

In tough times, some publishers lean on each other to get by.

As research libraries and archives are discovering, "born-digital" materials are much more complicated and costly to preserve than anticipated.