Vincent E. Altruda

Borders Group, Inc. owns and operates bookstores and music stores. It operates through its subsidiaries, Borders, Inc. and Walden Book Company, Inc., which operates stores selling books, music and movie superstores and mall-based bookstores. The company operates a proprietary e-commerce Web site www.borders.com. The company was founded in 1933 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

First Book is a nonprofit organization that provides new books to children from low-income families. The company was founded by Kyle Zimmer, Peter F. Gold and Elizabeth Arky in 1992 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.