Hickory Books · For photographers
Upload the gallery you already delivered. We design the printed book in minutes. Your client buys it under your studio's name, and you keep the margin on every copy.
Start with an event you've already shot. No new session required.
The promise
Clients ask for a printed book. Laying one out costs you an evening you don't have, so the answer is usually no — and the gallery expires with nothing printed. Hickory drafts the book for you so the answer can be yes on the same day you deliver.
How it works
Three steps, one login. You review a book instead of building one, and your client never leaves your studio's gallery to buy it.
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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. Every spread stays editable.
Length follows the gallery — a bigger set makes a longer book.
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Checkout sits inside the gallery. You set the price.
Printed and drop-shipped to them. Hickory never appears on the box.
Album software makes you lay out every spread. Print labs make you order boxes and resell them yourself. Hickory drafts the book, sells it inside your gallery, and ships it to your client — while leaving every page under your control.
The book
Every Hickory book is a press-printed casewrap hardcover on archival paper, printed by Lulu Direct. It is genuinely beautiful, and it is not a lay-flat flush-mount album — we won't pretend otherwise. Keep your flagship album where it is. Let this cover everything around it.
Size
8.5 × 11 inches
Cover
Casewrap hardcover
Length
Follows the gallery, 24–150 pages
Paper
Archival, full-bleed color
Binding
Standard bound, not lay-flat
Delivery
7–14 days, shipped to your client
What studios sell with it
These are the books clients already ask for and you decline for lack of time. Now they're a link in the gallery you were sending anyway.
Two extra copies for the mothers. Designed once, printed twice.
A hardcover from the engagement shoot, months before the wedding book.
One event, twenty-five families, twenty-five chances to sell.
A thank-you hardcover that keeps your studio on their shelf.
Pricing
Print cost is the only fixed number, and it's a verified one: hardcovers start at about $20 a copy with US shipping included, rise with page count, and drop on volume. You set retail in your own storefront and keep everything above it.
The Hickory subscription is a flat monthly fee, separate from that math. We're still setting it, and we'd rather quote it to you directly than post a number we'd have to change. Ask, and we'll send it the same day.
Upload a finished gallery and look at the book it designs. That's the whole evaluation — ten minutes, and you'll know.