What is the best self publishing company?

I wrote a children's book. Not very long. On my mac my PDF file is 10 pages long. I have an illustrator, I have an uncle who edited his own book and had his book published. I would like to do self publishing so I can have 100 of the Royalties. Of course...

I have heard of several companies. What do you think is the best one?

I am looking for a very high quality printer/self publisher with excellent quality. I read in a magazine about software you can download that would enable me to do most of the work on ...show more

Since I plan on also illustrating books in addition to writing them (novel format), I was wondering what is a company that has the best image quality. I have photos as well as old documents so this is why I'm concerned. thanks!

Let me be more clear. What is the difference between publishing a book by myself and publishing with a company such as Harper Collins? Also what would you suggest be better?

I am currently working on my first novel and was wondering which would be better to pursue. I'm very young (17) and have heard mixed things about age within a publishing company. Some say they would jump at the chance to publish someone so young, others...

Ok so I want to self publish my own book, but Im really picky about paper type.. theres like the white crisp printer paper type, and then theres the creamy yellow textury paper type. Its like thick and smells like 'book'. i know this sounds really weird...