The book business the world over was thrown into a spot it had never been in before when on February 14, 1989, Iran’s ruler, Ayatollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa against author Salman Rushdie for writing The Satanic Verses, which Khomeini said was an insult to Islam. Not only was Rushdie condemned to death, others who helped publish and sell the novel faced the same sentence. Our in-depth coverage looked at how the industry reacted to this unprecedented situation.
From The Archive: March 3, 1989 by Publishers Weekly on Scribd
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