Question

e - book sales as a percentage of total unit sales in all book formats for a large us trade publisher, by genre, 2006, 2011, 2016

genre	2006	2011	2016
cookbooks	0	2.9	10.5
travel guides	0	5.5	24.6
romance	0.3	40.6	56.2

e - books became an increasingly popular means of reading in the united states in the 2000s and 2010s, though that popularity was concentrated in titles that, like those in most fiction genres, are meant to be read straight through from beginning to end. for books in non - fiction genres that do not tell stories and require the reader to flip back and forth through a volume, e - books were significantly less commercially successful. this can be seen by comparing

which choice most effectively uses data from the table to illustrate the claim?

a) the percentage of 2016 cookbook sales that were e - books with the percentage of 2016 science fiction and fantasy sales that were e - books.
b) the percentage of 2006 romance sales that were e - books with the percentage of 2016 romance sales that were e - books.
c) the percentage of 2006 romance sales that were e - books with the 2006 science fiction and fantasy sales that were e - books.
d) the percentage of 2011 travel guide sales that were e - books with the percentage of 2016 travel guide sales that were e - books.

Explanation:

The claim is that e - books were less commercially successful for non - fiction genres (like cookbooks) compared to fiction genres (like science fiction and fantasy). Comparing the 2016 e - book sales percentages of a non - fiction genre (cookbooks) and a fiction genre (science fiction and fantasy) would best illustrate this claim.

Answer:

A. the percentage of 2016 cookbook sales that were e - books with the percentage of 2016 science fiction and fantasy sales that were e - books.