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Originally Posted by Yapyap
I only found data on the books published by publishing houses (members of the publishers' association), so I can't say for certain that this applies, of course. But I haven't spotted any obviously self-published titles whenever I'm browsing our bookshops' new ebooks lists to see if there's anything there my mother would like to read.
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Hopefully things will improve as ebook penetration improves.
In the US, before the conspiracy turbo-boosted indie ebooks--before even kindle--sites like Fictionwise accepted and promoted indie titles as a way to boost their catalog and compete against the name brand bookstores.
It was the opposite of what we see now: the big ebookstores have deep indie sections and the independents have none or, at most, Smashwords only. That is one area where ebookstore and traditional publisher interests most strongly diverge. If your ebookstores are still in the thrall of the traditional gatekeepers any indie push will likely be aimed at external sales. (I vaguely remember seeing a comment somewhere from an estonian indie author who was doing good business in english on Amazon.)
Time will tell...