BookHound 8 Standard Export Specifications

BookHound 8 Runtime (Single-user version) for Mac is an end of life software.

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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 BookRouter™ 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 BookRouter™ 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.

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