What are the standard specifications of a BookHound 8 export file?
Standard specs of a BookHound export file
- BookHound 8 standard export files are tab delimted with a .txt extenstion.
- The first record in all upload files sent from BookRouterâ„¢ is a header record
- Exported files are saved in the my_images folder within the BookHound 8 folder.
- Files are named with a-books-XXXXX
The first record in all upload files sent from BookRouterâ„¢ is a header record with fields in the following order:
sku
author
title
subtitle
place_pub
publisher
date_pub
edition
isbn
description
binding
condition
jacket_cond
comments
dj (y/n)
signed (y/n)
first_ed (y/n)
illustrator
keywords
subject 1
subject 2
subject 3
subject 4
subject 5
alt_1
alt_2
alt_3 / type
* image_url
price
quantity (0 = delete; > 0 = add)

image_url BookHound populates the image_url field with the primary image URL with exceptions for marketplaces that support multiple images per listing. In these instances, the image_url field contains comma separated image URLs.