cbj

The history of cbj dates back to the 19th century. In 1835, Carl Bertelsmann founded C. Bertelsmann Publishing, the whose program also included children's books. In 1861, 1869 and most recently in 1955, parts of the Liesching publishing from Stuttgart was taken over. Allowing the youth book program to grow. Youth books were later made one of five divisions of C. Bertelsmann Publishing. As the Bertelsmann Concerns Publishing merged into the Bertelsmann Publishing Group in 1968, for children's literature the C. Bertelsmann Youth book Publishing was founded. In the early 1970s, the C. Bertelsmann Youth book Publishing published moved from Gütersloh to Munich, as with the other trade publishers of Bertelsmann. In 1995, it launched, under the name "omnibus", a commercially successful series of paperbacks. In 2004, C. Bertelsmann Youth book Publishing was renamed cbj, so that it would not be confused with C. Bertelsmann Publisher. Pocket books for children appeared further under the name "omnibus" and paperbacks for young people under "cbt".

At the same time, the program of the publishing house was expanded in scope, while they had previously published mainly books for the age groups of 10 or 12 years, titles for younger readers were also put out. Under the direction of Jürgen Weidenbach, publishing sales grew strong the next four years. Since 2008, cbj and cbt are two independent publishers with their own hardcover and paperback programs. In the course, the "omnibus" brand was discontinued, and diverse titles were added in the programs from cbj and cbt. In 2009, cbj audio was started for audiobooks of children's literature, which was formally offered under the name "audionauten". Since the renaming, cbj audio functions as an independent publisher under the Random House Publishing Group, but is organizationally assigned to Random House Audio. In August 2014, Nicola Bartels took over editorial responsibilities for cbj and cbt, publishing director is still Jürgen Weidenbach.