FlameNet Distributions helps independent authors and self-publishers get ISBNs, prepare metadata, and reach bookstores and libraries worldwide through Ingram — without surveillance, lock-in, or extraction. You own your work. We just carry it well.
No trackers No data resale Profits to nonprofits You keep your rights
The Path to Print
Four steps, fully guided
We sit on top of the real publishing infrastructure — Bowker for ISBNs, Ingram for distribution — and handle the parts that trip up most independent authors.
Step 01
Choose your imprint
Publish under the FlameNet Publications imprint, or as your own sovereign imprint. Your choice, made plainly.
Step 02
Upload metadata
Title, author, description, categories, pricing. Our dashboard formats it correctly for the supply chain.
Step 03
Get your ISBN
Assigned and registered so your book is identified everywhere it travels — no guesswork, no confusion.
Step 04
Reach the shelves
Your title enters the Ingram catalog that bookstores, Barnes & Noble, and libraries order from worldwide.
Publishing Packages
Publish for a fraction of what it costs alone.
A single ISBN bought alone runs $125. Through FlameNet, publishing — ISBN, metadata, and distribution setup — starts at $29.99. Pricing scales by how many ISBNs your book needs.
Why more than one ISBN? Each format of your book is a separate product in the supply chain and needs its own ISBN: paperback, e-book, and hardcover are three distinct ISBNs. A book in all three formats needs three. Choose the package that matches the formats you're releasing.
One Format
1 ISBN
$29.99
e.g. paperback only
✦ One ISBN, assigned and registered
✦ Full metadata setup
✦ Ingram distribution setup
✦ FSBN catalog number included
Most common
Two Formats
2 ISBNs
$54.99
e.g. paperback + e-book
✦ Two ISBNs, assigned and registered
✦ Full metadata setup for both
✦ Ingram distribution setup
✦ FSBN catalog number included
Three Formats
3 ISBNs
$74.99
paperback + e-book + hardcover
✦ Three ISBNs, assigned and registered
✦ Full metadata setup for all
✦ Ingram distribution setup
✦ FSBN catalog number included
Publishing a series or multiple books? Contact us for series & bulk pricing.
Two imprint paths, your choice. Publish under the FlameNet Publications imprint (a Wyoming nonprofit, publisher of record) so proceeds after overhead feed the mission — or as your own sovereign imprint, where you are the publisher of record and own the ISBN permanently. Either way, the ISBN is passed through at cost: the imprint is never a profit center built on your book.
FSBN — FlameNet Standard Book Number
Your book, recorded in the sovereign catalog.
Every title published through FlameNet receives an FSBN — a FlameNet catalog number that lives alongside the ISBN, printed in the book and shown in the storefront. It's how the FlameNet ecosystem records and references your work within its own sovereign archive, independent of any outside registry.
✦ A feature of the platform — never an extra fee
FSBN
FN · 0001
Recorded in the book & shown in the storefront
Selling Direct — FlameNet Direct (.shop)
Keep far more of every sale.
List your published title for direct sale on FlameNet Direct. Our commission is a fraction of what the industry takes — and it's never exclusive, so your book keeps its full reach everywhere else.
Independent / For-Profit
30% commission
you keep 70%
✦ List on FlameNet Direct, sold to readers
✦ Non-exclusive — keep all other channels
✦ ISBN & FSBN shown on your storefront listing
Nonprofit
Registered Nonprofit
20% commission
you keep 80% · verification required
✦ Reduced rate for verified nonprofits
✦ Non-exclusive — keep all other channels
✦ ISBN & FSBN shown on your storefront listing
Why this is the most an author can keep. The industry standard pushes a 55% discount, and going lower restricts which stores will carry you. Ingram won't permit third-party sellers below a 35% discount. By selling direct through FlameNet Direct at 30% (or 20% for nonprofits), more of each sale reaches you than any wholesale path allows — and because we never require exclusive distribution, your book can still run the standard 55% wholesale terms to reach every other store. You lose nothing; you simply gain a higher-margin channel.
Membership
One fair fee. No extraction.
Membership unlocks the dashboard, publishing packages, and hands-on help through ISBN registration, BISAC categories, wholesale-discount strategy, and returnability — the details that decide whether bookstores actually stock your book. No ads. No data resale. No upsell maze.