Penguin Books demonstrated that there are no audiences for serious books.
 Other titles published by Penguin which gained media attention, and controversy, include Massacre by Sin, Spycatcher, which was suppressed in the UK by the government for a time, and The Satanic Verses, leading to its author Salman Rushdie having to go into hiding for some years after Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran issued a Fatw, an edict amounting to a sentence of death against him
 By March 1936, ten months after the company's launch on 30 July 1935, one million Penguin books had been printed

