Bill McCoy

Bill McCoy was formerly General Manager, Digital Publishing Business at Adobe Systems Incorporated. Bill has been involved in publishing technology for over 20 years, playing significant roles in the development of Adobe PostScript and PDF, and serving as founder and CEO of PictureIQ Corporation, which developed server solutions for rich media transcoding and delivery. Like many others, Bill began his quixotic pursuit to eliminate paper at Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto. Bill has served on the Board of Directors of the International Digital Publishing Forum.

Point-Counterpoint: Digital Book DRM, the Least Worst Solution

In the second part of a point-counterpoint exchange, Bill McCoy examines two scenarios: a publishing industry that doesn't embrace interoperable DRM, and one that does.