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*nods* That makes sense.

The first issue can be addressed to some extent with self-publishing if you’re able to put together a really good street team (a group of people to help you promote your book) and you can put together good promotional graphics. (And be sure to have a professional cover.) It’s still not as good as having a big publisher to help promote your book, but if you’d rather go indie for enough additional reasons then that might still be worth it. That’s up to you.

You can print paperback if you indie publish. I have paperback copies of both my published books. You can also get them in bookstores, but I’m not sure what the process behind that is. I know there’s an option (at least with Kindle Direct Publishing (which has merged with CreateSpace and does both paperback and ebook)) to make your books available for bookstore sales, but I think you’d have to get on a bookstore’s radar first and I’m not sure how that works. I haven’t published any books yet that I’d be super excited to see in bookstores, so I haven’t looked into it. Someone else might be able to tell you better.