Bill McCoy

Bill McCoy is Executive Director of the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), the trade and standards group responsible for the EPUB standard interchange and delivery format for eBooks and other digital publications. McCoy  also serves as President of the Readium Foundation, an independent open source consortium formed in 2013 to collaboratively develop software for EPUB and the Open Web Platform.

Prior to joining IDPF, Mr. McCoy was General Manager, Digital Publishing at Adobe Systems. Previously Mr. McCoy was Founder and CEO of PictureIQ Corporation (acquired by Eastman Kodak in 2003). McCoy has a degree in Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley and began his career at Xerox Corporation in Palo Alto, CA. He has pursued postgraduate studies in Computer Science at Stanford University and in Business at Santa Clara University. McCoy has been involved in publishing technology for over 25 years, and has contributed to the establishment of numerous industry-standard platforms including PostScript, PDF, OpenType and EPUB.