“Everybody is buying it--housewives, students, people who...

“Everybody is buying it--housewives, students, people who like to read. I sold one last night to a guy who looked like a guitar player from a rock ‘n’ roll band.”

--Julie Protze, cashier at a B. Dalton outlet in Hollywood, on the novel “The Satanic Verses,” which has been banned in the Muslim world, where it has inspired riots in which at least six people have died.