IngramSpark's Thema subjects, found in plain words
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R. S. Breed Founder
When you set up a title on IngramSpark, it asks for Thema subjects as well as the usual BISAC ones. Its help pages say they're required in some countries for booksellers to buy your book, and that from 2024 every country in Europe wants at least one on each book. The list has thousands of codes like FMB and 1DDU-GB-SHA, which isn't much fun to search.
Here's a finder: https://bervet.com/tools/thema-subject-finder
- Type what your book is ("cosy mystery", "space opera", "Scotland") and it finds the codes that fit, best first.
- Each one shows where it sits in the scheme (Fiction › Fantasy › Epic fantasy) and EDItEUR's own notes on when to use it.
- Or browse down from the top.
- Pick a main subject and any others that really apply, plus qualifiers for where or when the story is set and who it's for. Then copy the codes, or the codes with their names.
- With a book plan, the codes save to it, and the next tool you open will have them.
The list is EDItEUR's own (they run Thema), unchanged.
BISAC isn't included: the organisation that owns it doesn't allow it to be reproduced. Its own site lets you look codes up free, and there's a link on the page.
No account needed.