The pie charts illustrate how the Internet sale proportions of | Mardon's IELTS

The pie charts illustrate how the Internet sale proportions of four retail sectors changed over the course of a decade, between 2003 and 2013.

It is evident that the market shares of the traveling and apparel industries shrank throughout this period while the reverse of this was seen in the books and film&music sectors.Towards 2013, the travel industry lost its dominance as the market leader to the film and music sector.

In 2003, the percentage of sales the travel industry made online was 36% which was nearly twice as high as that of books. Interestingly, the figures for both attire and film&music industry were almost the same at about a quarter of the total online sales each.

In 2013, however, the market shares changed quite a bit with the film and music sector taking the lead by making a one-third of the gross internet sales while the percentage of the online sales in the clothes sector was slightly less than half of this proportion. It is clear that the online sales volume of books and travel sectors collectively accounted for just above half of all the sales made on the Internet.

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