Just as Lane well judged the public's appetite for paperbacks in the 1930s, his decision to publish "Lady Chatterley's Lover" by D. H. Lawrence in 1960 boosted Penguin's notoriety. The novel was at the time unpublished in the United Kingdom and the predicted obscenity trial, "R v Penguin Books Ltd", not only marked Penguin as a fearless publisher, it also helped drive the sale of at least 3.5 million copies. Penguin's victory in the case heralded the end to the censorship of books in the UK, although censorship of the written word was only finally defeated after the "Inside Linda Lovelace" trial of 1978.