The pie chart shows the sales from a book store from the years between 1972 and 2012. Looking at the year 1972, there are five categories of book sales in that year, showing 20% sales in adult fiction, which means the books didn’t really catch the attention of people. This low sales figure is also shown in other books like children’s fiction and biography, with 20% sales in all three of them, except for others, which is a bit higher than the others, giving a total sales of 25% higher. The pie chart always shows a significant fall in travel sales, showing only 15% of it in the year 1972.
1992 shows an improvement in sales in adult fiction by 25% compared to other sales in the previous year. The book shop had a slight increase in children’s sales by 22% compared to the previous year in 1972. It shows a fall in sales of biography fiction compared to other sales in 1992, likewise an increase in sales in travel fiction by 18% compared to the past year’s sales. Other sales show a change in sales by a 5% fall compared to 1972 sales, which fell to 20% sales in 1992.
Adult fiction sales show an impressive massive sale compared to the past years and compared to the other books in sales in the year 2012. Children’s sales have shown a massive and impressive growth in the past year, which is higher than the 1992 sales by 25% growth, while biography shows a significant fall in sales, lower than the 1992 sales and 1972 sales together, giving only 8% sales. The same goes for travel and other sales, with falls of 10% and 12% in sales.
Showing their higher sales in adult fiction in 2012 than the 1972 and 1992 sales in total brings it that adult fiction has more attention in 2012 than in other years.