After finishing the interpretation and publication of our survey results, we are now providing an English version of the data. Please excuse some possible errors in the translation…
About the survey in general: The first independent survey “Self Publishing in Germany” ran from May 22nd to June 16th at http://selfpublishing.limequery.com/index.php/756156/lang-de (survey is inactive now). Limequery is an independently developed survey tool.
The 50 questions (all were asked in german language) cover all aspects of self publishing, from the motives upto the people involved with it. They were developed by Hilke-Gesa Bußmann (Goethe-University Frankfurt) and Matthias Matting (selfpublisherbibel.de). There was no outside financing.