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bookstores listed on the Canadian Independent Booksellers Association's website, 29 of them are in the Vancouver Island region.

said bookstore owner Megan Scott, speaking to CBC News about the 60th anniversary of Ivy's Bookshop earlier this year.

Despite recent fears that e-readers and audiobooks would push physical books into obscurity, Scott says business is still strong.

One of them is the Laughing Oyster Book Shop in Courtenay, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.

"I would say that independent bookstores are very good at cooperating with each other," Laughing Oyster owner Evelyn Gillespie told CBC News.

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