The pie charts below show the percentage of five kinds of books sold by a bookseller between 1972 and 2012.
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The three pie charts compare the book sales of five categories in the years 1972, 1992 and 2012. It is noticeable that the proportion of sales for adult fiction and children’s fiction saw a continued rise in the whole period shown, while biography and other genres experienced a decrease.
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The pie charts illustrate how the sales of various genres of book at a store changed in three given years. Overall, fiction works for both adults and children grew in popularity over time, whereas the opposite happened to biography and travel books.