The figure illustrates the book selection by genre among residents in the rustic bookstore, with predictions for the future.
Overall, biographies were preferred more at the beginning, but the preference for textbooks is expected to be the highest. Additionally, biographies and mysteries will become less popular, while textbooks and workbooks will gain popularity among inhabitants.
At the beginning, biographies and textbooks had relatively the same amount of selection, at 300, and mysteries’ choices were 250 in 1980. Workbooks weren’t in the bookshop the first ten years, but their selection began to increase dramatically in the next ten years. At the same time, preference for the remaining genres increased slightly until 1995. Meanwhile, textbooks’ and workbooks’ picks were stable till 2025, biographies’ and mystery books’ picks dropped and increased again, reaching their highest point in 2025.
In the future, projections show that choosing textbooks and workbooks will increase significantly, reaching their highest values in 2040. Biography and mystery books’ preferences will drop considerably, becoming less popular and hitting their lowest points.