DC Books is a
publisher and bookseller with headquarters in
Kottayam,
Kerala,
India. It has published over 6,500 titles, mainly literature in
Malayalam, but also including children's literature, poetry, reference, biography, self-help, yoga, management titles, and foreign translations. DC Media is the media division of DC Books. DC Media publishes five magazines including
Education Insider, Asia's leading magazine on education;
Future Medicine, a magazine on the Asian medical industry;
Emerging Kerala, Kerala's fastest growing magazine on business, economy and society;
Money Indices; and
Travel and Flavors. DC Books was founded in 1974 by
Dominic Chacko Kizhakemuri, known as D.C. Kizhakemuri, or DC. At that time, DC was secretary of the
Sahithya Pravarthaka Co-operative Society, a cooperative venture of Malayalam writers. The society helped writers with business and publishing details and instituted a standard royalty of 30-40%, as well as the system of an 'advance' payment for their books to help enable them to devote themselves to writing full-time. When DC turned his attention to founding DC Books, DC began promoting and creating markets for its books by organizing festivals, clubs, and pre-publication subscriptions, and installment schemes. Their bookclub scheme allows buyers to build a library of their own by buying books on installments. In 1977, Current Books became its
sister business. In 2001, DC Books launched dcbooks.com, an Indian local language bookstore with over 4,000 titles. In 2004, DC Books partnered with Corner Books to open a
New Delhi branch for Keralites in Delhi. DC Books is the publisher of several translation dictionaries used by professionals and South Asian Linguists, such as their: • "English-English-Malayalam dictionary" by T. Ramalingam Pillai () • Malayalam English Dictionary by M. Varier, et al. ==Imprints==