The Kerala Books and Publications Society is registered under the Travancore Cochin Literary, Scientific and Charitable Society registration Act, 1955 and is established in the year 1976. The Society is fully owned by the Government of Kerala and established for printing the entire text books for Standard I to X required by the school children in the Kerala State. The distribution of the textbooks is also entrusted with KBPS as per G.O. (Rt.) No. 5267/2009/G.Edn dated 15/12/2009 and from 2010 onwards KBPS is doing the distribution of textbooks up to School Co-operative Societies all over Kerala. KBPS is doing the work of printing of lottery tickets for the Government of Kerala from 1984 onwards and carrying out the distribution of lottery tickets from 2016 onwards. KBPS is also catering to the printing needs of other Government Departments/Organizations.

KBPS is an ISO 14298 : 2013certified organization equipped with most modern machines under strict security measures. The present infrastructure is used for the printing of textbooks for General Education Department, lottery tickets for Lottery Department and printing needs of other Government Departments/Organizations.

KBPS is in the process of establishing a high security printing unit empanelled under IBA having required specifications inside KBPS Press to undertake all types of printing and delivery of works with confidential nature which require high security measures, safeguards of Central Government/State Government, Central & State Government Departments, its allied institutions, Central/State Government PSUs, Banks and other Central/State Government and Semi Government institutions, Local Self Government Institutions (LSGIs) and private companies/institutions on all printing substrate/ medium.