Prestel-Verlag

Verlagsgruppe Random House dates back to the traditional C. Bertelsmann Verlag, which was founded in 1835 in Gütersloh. Currently, Verlagsgruppe Random House comprises 45 book publishers, the fiction, children's books, textbooks, theology, guide, audio books and e-books embarrassed. The publishers include Goldmann, Heyne, Blessing, Del Rey, Knaus, Luchterhand, settlers, btb, Manesse, DVA, the Gütersloh publishing house and of course C. Bertelsmann. 

In 1968, the eleven time Bertelsmann's public and non-fiction publishers publishing group Bertelsmann combined; 1972 attracted the trade publishers to Munich. In Gütersloh, the Gütersloh publishing house continues now more than 170 years of theological tradition publisher Bertelsmann. 1974 Del Rey was acquired. The Goldmann Verlag is since 1977 part of the publishing group Bertelsmann. 

In the US, Bertelsmann acquired the 1980 paperback publisher Bantam Books, followed in 1986 the publishing house Doubleday. The American imprints henceforth under Bantam Doubleday Dell. In 1998, Bertelsmann, the respected American publishing house Random House and led it with Bantam Doubleday Dell. It was the new international Verlagsgruppe Random House, Inc. 

publishing group Bertelsmann in Munich since 2001's Verlagsgruppe Random House. You could grow in Germany in 2003 by the acquisition of Heyne publishing house and in 2005 through the acquisition of publishers DVA, Manesse and Kösel. 2008 Random House Publishing Group acquired the Prestel Verlag and forming part of the Heinrich Hugendubel Verlag Imprints Ariston, Diederichs, Irisiana, Kailash and Sphinx, 2010. Hörverlag.

Source: Random House Publishing Group website.