In the United States, the
FBI was notified of 78 threats to bookstores in early March 1989, thought to be a small proportion of the total number of threats.
B. Dalton bookstore chain received 30 threats in less than three hours.[
citation needed] Bombings of book stores included two in
Berkeley, California. In New York, the office of a community newspaper,
The Riverdale Press, was all but destroyed by firebombs following the publication of an editorial defending the right to read the novel and criticizing the bookstores that pulled it from their shelves.
[31] But the United Kingdom was the country where violence against bookstores occurred most often and persisted the longest. Two large bookstores in
Charing Cross Road, London, (
Collets and
Dillons) were bombed on 9 April. In May, explosions went off in the town of
High Wycombe and again in London, on
Kings Road. Other bombings included one at a large London department store (
Liberty's), in connection with the Penguin Bookshop inside the store, and at the Penguin store in
York. Unexploded devices were found at Penguin stores in
Guildford,
Nottingham, and
Peterborough.
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In the United States, it was unavailable in about one-third of bookstores. In many others that carried the book, it was kept under the counter.
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