Hickory Books · For photography studios
Upload the gallery you already delivered. We design the book; your client buys it under your studio’s name, at your price.
You set the price. Most of it is yours.
No credit card required. Start with a gallery you’ve already delivered.
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 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. It works the same on a wedding, a newborn morning or a two-day conference — the engine reads capture times and the photos themselves, not the kind of shoot it was.
01
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.
02
A full draft in minutes. You pick the cover and the template.
Length follows the gallery — a bigger set makes a longer book.
03
Checkout sits inside the gallery. You set the price.
Printed and drop-shipped straight to your client — you never touch inventory.
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 the cover, the captions 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 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
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
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 — whatever you shot to fill it.
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
You set the retail price; our fee is flat, never a percentage of your markup. The subscription is separate: $29/month for the first 100 studios — locked for life — then $39/month.
A wedding, a newborn session, a conference — whatever you shot last. Upload the finished gallery and look at the book it designs. That's the whole evaluation: ten minutes, and you'll know.