The chart shows the quantity of the book’s types between 2002 and 2012. There are hobbies, entertainment, history and art books. We can see that peoples’ preferences have not significantly changed but they have begun to read more.
At first, in 2002, more than four thousand history books were sold, which was more than double as compared to entertainment and art books, while only around 1000 items of hobby books were sold. In 2004, the numbers increased slightly, but in 2006, sales of history books went up significantly to 8 thousand copies. As for entertainment and art books, they sold the same number of copies, around 3000, at the same period hobby books decreased their sales to only 250, which remained the same until the end of the year.
In 2008, the sales of history books peaked at ten thousand copies, and as for the other ones, they only slightly went up. After the next two years, history and entertainment book sales declined to about 8000 and 2000, while art book sales increased to 4000 and remained the same in 2012. In 2012, history and entertainment book sales increased slightly by 300 copies.