Amazon's Tech Advice

[LosOjos]

I've just started listing some books on Amazon and had a look at their bulk book uploader tool. I had to laugh at this:

You can set up your Standard Book Format file, using a variety of database or spreadsheet programmes. You must ensure that you populate the appropriate Standard Book Format Fields (shown below), put headers in bold text and save your file in a tab-delimited (.txt) format.

OK, so I must ensure that my non-formatted, tab separated values (.tsv) document contains formatting and is saved with the wrong extension, makes sense!

It made me smile anyway

[Steve21]

I feel badly written may be more appropriate

"Put the bold text as headers" would be better I'd say. And I don't see what's wrong with the file format, .txt is tab-delimited file, not tsv etc in Excel. Always worked here unless they changed it, but pretty sure it's still .txt in excel

Steve

[LosOjos]

I feel badly written may be more appropriate

"Put the bold text as headers" would be better I'd say. And I don't see what's wrong with the file format, .txt is tab-delimited file, not tsv etc in Excel. Always worked here unless they changed it, but pretty sure it's still .txt in excel

Steve

Yeah technically CSV and TSV are just plain text files, but the correct format for tab delimited would be TSV.

Did I mention I'm a member of Pedantic Geeks?

[sonofsanta]

Did I mention I'm a member of Pedantic Geeks?

Of course, all the cool kids are.

[/totally unbiased opinion]