Hickory Books · For photography studios
Upload the gallery you already delivered. We design the book. You send your client the finished book, and they order it at your price.
You set the price. Most of it is yours.
No credit card required.
June 12 — the rooftop, golden hour.
p. 14
Harper & Wes
Ridgeline Barn · June 2026
June 12 — the rooftop, golden hour.
p. 14
Harper & Wes
Ridgeline Barn · June 2026
One shelf per studio. One book per shoot.
The promise
Clients ask for a printed book. Laying one out costs an evening you don't have, so the answer is usually no. Hickory drafts the book so you can say yes the day you deliver.
How it works
You review a book instead of building one, then send it to your client to order. It works on any shoot: the engine reads capture times and the photos, not the kind of shoot.
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The finished export, exactly as you'd hand it over.
Harper & Wes · Ridgeline Barn
412 photos · delivered June 14
Your client browses it on their phone under your studio's name.
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A full draft in minutes. You pick the cover and the template.
Length follows the size of the gallery.
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You send the finished book. Your client orders it at your price, shipping included.
Printed and shipped to your client. No inventory.
Album software makes you lay out every spread. Print labs make you order and resell. Hickory drafts the book, takes your client’s order and ships it. The cover and every cut stay yours.
The book
Every Hickory book is a press-printed casewrap hardcover in full colour on 80# coated stock. It is not a lay-flat flush-mount album. Keep your flagship album; let this cover everything around it.
Size
8.5 × 8.5 inch square. More sizes coming soon.
Cover
Casewrap hardcover
Length
Follows the gallery, 24 to 150 pages
Paper
80# coated stock, full-bleed colour
Binding
Standard bound, not lay-flat
Delivery
Two to three weeks, shipped to your client
What studios sell with it
The books clients ask for and you turn down for lack of time, now a finished book you send them to order.
The wedding book again for both mothers, or the family session for the grandparents. Designed once, printed as often as they ask.
A newborn, senior portrait or engagement session as a hardcover, sent with the gallery.
One shoot, twenty-five families, twenty-five chances to sell.
A conference, a fundraiser, a season. The client's own printed record of the day.
Pricing
Our fee is flat, never a percentage of your price. Your first 2 galleries are free, with no card. For a third gallery, the plan is $39/month.
A wedding, a newborn session, a conference: whatever you shot last. Upload it and look at the book. Ten minutes, and you'll know.