# Acknowledgements and Contributors

This appendix is informative

### › B.1 EPUB 3.0

EPUB has been developed by the International Digital Publishing Forum in a cooperative effort, bringing together publishers, vendors, software developers, and experts in the relevant standards.

The EPUB 3 specifications were prepared by the International Digital Publishing Forum’s EPUB Maintenance Working Group, operating under a charter approved by the membership in May, 2010 under the leadership of:

- Gylling, Markus (DAISY Consortium) Chair
- Conboy, Garth (Google Inc.) Vice-chair
- Duga, Brady (Google Inc.) Vice-chair, Subgroup Lead
- McCoy, Bill (International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF)) Secretary
- Kasdorf, Bill (Apex CoVantage) Subgroup Lead
- MURATA, Makoto (JEPA EPUB Study Group) Subgroup Lead
- Sorotokin, Peter (Adobe) Subgroup Lead

Active members of the working group at the time of publication of revision 3.0 were:

IDPF Members

- Abrams, Willie (Ingram Digital)
- Acton, Daniel (Google)
- Allesi, Ana Maria (HarperCollins)
- Amos, Dan (DNAML (DNL eBooks))
- Arany, Steve (John Wiley & Sons)
- Artin, Michael (Barnes & Noble)
- Badger, Brandon (Google)
- Ballard, Kevin (Apple Inc.)
- Beard, Elliot (HarperCollins)
- Belfanti, Paul (Pearson)
- Bell, Graham (EDItEUR)
- Bide, Mark (EDItEUR)
- Bogaty, Nick (Adobe)
- Bowers, Micah (Bluefire Productions)
- Brantley, Peter (Internet Archive)
- Breglio, Melissa (Apple Inc.)
- Broome, Karen (Sony)
- Brugge, John (Benetech)
- Carbonell, Oliver (Sony)
- Chang, Phobos (Chinese Foundation for Digitization Technology)
- Chen, Mei-Li (Institute for Information Industry)
- Chen, Peter (ITRI)
- Choi, Soo (HarperCollins)
- Chow, King-Wai (ASTRI (Hong Kong Applied Science & Technology Research Institute))
- Clutter, Mat (Random House)
- Conboy, Garth (Google)
- Cramer, Dave (Hachette Book Group)
- Cronin, Margot (Bowker)
- Daly, Liza (Threepress)
- De Meulemeester, Eric (Jouve/Publishing Dimensions)
- DeMeglio, Marisa (DAISY Consortium)
- Deltour, Romain (DAISY Consortium)
- Dougherty, Casey (Apple Inc.)
- Drake, Jama (Impelsys)
- Duga, Brady (Google)
- Elliott, Ray (Crossway)
- Fahlgren, Keith (Threepress)
- Fain, Guy (Crossway)
- Freese, Eric (Aptara)
- Gardeur, Hadrien (Feedbooks)
- Gold, Eric (Digital Divide Data)
- Goodwin, Jonathan (Appfoundry)
- Gopinath, Anith (Impelsys)
- Gosling, Andreas (Penguin)
- Grazioli, Frank (John Wiley & Sons)
- Gunn, Dave (RNIB)
- Gylling, Markus (DAISY Consortium)
- Haas, Matt (Pearson)
- Hadfield, Tom (CourseSmart)
- Hagino, Masaaki (Voyager Japan)
- Hawkins, Kevin (University of Michigan Library)
- Hayashi, Junichi (Voyager Japan)
- Heiberger, Richard (HarperCollins)
- Hepp, Mike (Dartmouth Journal Services)
- Herren, Matthew (BlankPage)
- Hisashi, Saiga (Sharp)
- Hoda, Hisashi (Voyager Japan)
- Howard, William (Easypress)
- Hughes, Dan (Liguori Publications)
- Hulse, Leslie (HarperCollins)
- Imsieke, Gerrit (le-tex)
- Jain, Anupam (Innodata Isogen)
- Jie, Fan (Gansu DUZHE Digital Sci&Tech)
- Johnson, Rick (Ingram Digital)
- Jung, Kanghee (Incube Technologies)
- Kakar, Samir (Aptara)
- Kanai, Takeshi (Sony)
- Kasdorf, Bill (Apex CoVantage)
- Kasher, Bob (BookMasters and Newgen Imaging)
- Kato, Kazuyuki (East Co.)
- Keating, Patrick (Bluefire Productions)
- Kerscher, George (DAISY Consortium)
- Kida, Yasuo (Apple Inc.)
- Kim, Jean (Barnes & Noble)
- Kim, HyunYoung (Incube Technologies)
- Kim, Terry (INKA Entworks)
- Kitagawa, Masahiro (Impress Holdings)
- Koike, Toshiaki (Voyager Japan)
- Kok, Dan (Crossway)
- Kotrch, Steve (Simon & Schuster)
- Larroque, Benoit (Feedbooks)
- Levantovsky, Vladimir (Monotype Imaging)
- Lu, Cho-Chin (Institute for Information Industry)
- Lynch, Ryan (Apple Inc.)
- MacFarlane, James (Easypress)
- Makower, Dave (Apple Inc.)
- Mandelbaum, David (Barnes & Noble)
- Manis, Will (Metaplates)
- McCloy-Kelley, Liisa (Random House)
- McCoy, Bill (IDPF)
- Menzies, Tracey (HarperCollins)
- Mitchell, Chris (Random House)
- Moore, Helen (HarperCollins)
- Muller, Eric (Adobe)
- Murata, Makoto (JEPA EPUB Study Group)
- Mussinelli, Christina (Associazione Italiana Editori)
- Nagai, Yoshinori (Sharp)
- Novelli, Joe (Sony)
- O'Connor, Edward (Apple Inc.)
- Ohmura, Yoshinori (Impress Holdings)
- Olenick, Michael (Bowker)
- Oshiyama, Taka (East Co.)
- Pagano, Pat (Barnes & Noble)
- Picco, Marty (AppFoundry)
- Prabhu, John (HOV Services)
- Pritchett, James (Learning Ally (formerly RFB&D))
- Rao, Vishnu (Sharp Laboratories)
- Rivlin, John (Google)
- Rubino, Frank (Kaplan Publishing)
- Ruffino, Daniel (Penguin)
- Rui Hua, Wang (Gansu DUZHE Digital Sci&Tech)
- Ruse, Tyler (LibreDigital)
- Sanicola, Daniel (Penguin)
- Schirmer, Lorenz (Monotype Imaging)
- Shiohama, Daihei (Voyager Japan)
- Shrivastava, Abhishek (CourseSmart)
- Slavin, Wayne (Barnes & Noble)
- Slye, Christopher (Adobe)
- Smith, Michael (IDPF)
- Soiffer, Neil (Design Science)
- Sorotokin, Peter (Adobe)
- Stevenson, Tobias (eBookArchitects)
- Tahara, Kyoji (Toppan Printing)
- Takase, Hiroshi (East Co.)
- Tallent, Joshua (eBookArchitects)
- Tanabe, Shu (Toppan Printing)
- Thomas, Vinu (Impelsys)
- Tsumagari, Koichiro (Voyager Japan)
- Valentine, Chelsea (LibreDigital)
- Vangage, Peter (Harlequin)
- Vido, Ariel (Geografica Editora)
- Wait, John (Pearson)
- Walkley, George (Hachette Book Group)
- Watters, Kevin (Harlequin)
- Webster, Roger (Barnes & Noble)
- Weck, Daniel (DAISY Consortium)
- Wei, Selena (Chinese Foundation for Digitization Technology)
- White, Russell (Random House)
- Wiles, Alexis (Overdrive, Inc.)
- Witwer, Adam (O'Reilly)
- Wright, Rick (Adobe)
- Young, Liz (Crossway)
- Zu, Alex (ASTRI (Hong Kong Applied Science & Technology Research Institute))

Invited Experts/Observers

- Bowes, Rick
- Cazenove, Rhys
- Collingridge, Peter
- Cook, Mike
- Etemad, Elika J. W3C CSS WG Liason
- Forster, Karen
- Freed, Geoff
- Fujisawa, Jun
- Garrish, Matt
- Gould, Bryan
- Görner, Martin
- Hsieh, Michael
- Ishii, Koji
- Johar, Kenny
- Karlsson, Mattias
- Kennedy, Dianne
- Kilborn, Peter
- Koppel, Josh
- Lee, Tommy
- Lu, Kenny
- Lubeck, Scott
- Masanori, Kusunoki
- McKinney, Steven
- Murakami, Shinyu
- Ning, Elliott
- Noring, Jon
- Norton, Paul
- Oishi, Yasuharu
- Passey, Lee
- Rosmaita, Gregory
- Seaman, David
- Sevardia, Ron
- Shan, Walter
- Smith(tm), Michael (W3C) W3C Liason
- Sperberg, Roger
- Walsh, Norman
- Zergaoui, Mohamed

### › B.2 EPUB 2.0.1

Version 2.0.1 of this specification was prepared by the International Digital Publishing Forum’s EPUB Maintenance Working Group under the leadership of:

- Conboy, Garth (eBook Technologies) Working Group Vice-chair
- Kerscher, George (DAISY Consortium) Working Group Chair

Active members of the working group at the time of publication of revision 2.0.1 were:

- Wiles, Alexis (OverDrive)
- Wise, Alicia (Publishers Licensing Society)
- Moghaddami, Amir (National Library and Archives of Iran)
- Gosling, Andreas (Penguin UK)
- Williams, Andy (Cambridge University Press)
- Jain, Anupam (Innodata Isogen)
- Trafford, Ben (Invited Expert)
- Larroque, Benoit (Feedbooks)
- McCoy, Bill (Invited Expert)
- Kasdorf, Bill (Apex CoVantage)
- Kasher, Bob (The BookMasters Group)
- Duga, Brady (eBook Technologies)
- Laws, Byron (PreMedia Global)
- Zekri, Catherine (University of Montreal)
- Kennedy, Chris (Pearson Education)
- Podolsky, Corey (Entourage Systems Inc.)
- Mussinelli, Cristina (AIE)
- Daihei, Shiohama (Voyager Japan)
- Amos, Dan (DNAML)
- Galperin, Dan (Kobo)
- Kok, Dan (Crossway Books and Bibles)
- Cramer, Dave (Hachette Book Group USA)
- Gunn, Dave (RNIB Centre for Accessible Information)
- Mandelbaum, David (Barnes&Noble.com)
- Roberts, Deidra (World Health Organization)
- Goyette, Donald (McGraw-Hill Professional)
- Freese, Eric (Aptara)
- Gold, Eric (Digital Divide Data)
- Muller, Eric (Adobe)
- Shepherd, Gregory (Cengage Learning)
- Fain, Guy (Crossway Books & Bibles)
- Gardeur, Hadrien (Feedbooks)
- Hoda, Hisashi (Voyager Japan)
- Fernández Galván, Ignacio
- Viente, Israel (Mendele He-Books)
- Link, Jim (Macmillan Publishing Solutions)
- MacFarlane, James (Easypress Technologies)
- Rura, Jim (Educational Testing Service)
- Crossman, John (Benetech)
- Prabhu, John (HOV Services)
- Rivlin, John (eBook Technologies)
- Wait, John (Pearson Education)
- Noring, Jon (Invited Expert)
- Tallent, Joshua (eBook Architects)
- Broome, Karen (Sony)
- Fahlgren, Keith (Threepress Consulting)
- Johar, Kenny (Vision Australia)
- Casey, Laurie (Pearson)
- Rzedzicki, Lech (Pearson UK)
- McCloy-Kelley, Liisa (Random House)
- Humphreys, Lindy (Wiley/ Blackwell Books)
- Daly, Liza (Theepress Consulting)
- Murata, Makoto (JEPA EPUB Study Group)
- Croella, Marco (Simplicissimus Book Farm)
- Gylling, Markus (DAISY Consortium)
- Karlsson, Mattias (Dolphin Computer Access AB)
- Smith, Michael (IDPF)
- Soiffer, Neil (Design Science)
- Genner, Noah (BookNet Canada)
- Pagano, Pat (HarperCollins)
- Payton, Patricia (Bowker)
- Barry, Patrick (The Educational Company of Ireland)
- Berube, Patrick (LEARN)
- Durrant, Paul (Durrant Software Limited)
- Norton, Paul (Invited Expert)
- Reid, Penelope (EPUB User Group (UK))
- Huang, Perce (Far EasTone Telecommunications)
- Brantley, Peter (Internet Archive)
- Sorotokin, Peter (Adobe)
- Heiberger, Richard (HarperCollins Publishers)
- Kwan, Richard (Invited Expert)
- White, Russell (Random House)
- Kakar, Samir (Aptara)
- Pamarty, Satya (codeMantra)
- Cook, Scott (codeMantra)
- Ramsey, Sean (LibreDigital)
- Padgett, Siobahn (Hachette BG USA)
- Arany, Steve (John Wiley & Sons)
- Kanai, Takeshi (Sony)
- Swiderski, Thad (LibreDigital)
- Middleton, Tim (BookNet Canada)
- Conti, Trudy (Follett)
- Ruse, Tyler (LibreDigital)
- Howard, William (EasyPress Technologies)

### › B.3 EPUB 1.0

Version 1.0 of this specification was prepared by the International Digital Publishing Forum’s Unified OEBPS Container Format Working Group under the leadership of:

- Conboy, Garth (eBook Technologies) Working Group Co-Chair
- Rivlin, John (eBook Technologies) Working Group Co-Chair
- Ferraiolo, Jon (IBM) Working Group Vice-Chair
- Bogaty, Nick (IDPF) Working Group Secretary

Active members of the working group at the time of publication of revision 1.0 were:

- Allen, Kelley L. (Random House)
- Ancin, Angel (iRex Technologies)
- Bandy, Ryan (Random House)
- Bellaver, Richard (Ball State University)
- Brethes, Thierry (Mobipocket)
- Carter, Janice (Benetech/Bookshare.org)
- Cohn, Richard (Adobe Systems Inc.)
- De Young, Neil (Hachette Book Group USA)
- Do, Linh N. (Random House, Inc.)
- Freed, Geoff (WGBH)
- Gang, Liang (TriWorks Asia)
- Ghali, Peter (Motricity, ereader.com)
- Hakkinen, Markku T. (DAISY Consortium)
- Harrison, Gillian (NetLibrary)
- Hevenstone, Jonathan (Publishing Dimensions)
- Horner, Theresa (HarperCollins)
- Iannone, Karen (Houghton Mifflin)
- Israel, Claire (Simon & Schuster)
- Karlsson, Mattias (Dolphin Computer Access)
- Kasdorf, Bill (Apex Publishing)
- Kerscher, George (DAISY Consortium)
- Kotrch, Steve (Simon & Schuster)
- McCoy, Bill (Adobe Systems, Inc.)
- McKenna, Bill (Follett)
- Melton, Bonnie (Houghton Mifflin College Division)
- Noring, Jon (OpenReader Consortium)
- Osayande, Sayu (Motricity, ereader.com)
- Passey, Lee
- Potash, Steve (OverDrive)
- Ruse, Tyler (Codemantra)
- Smith, Mike (Harlequin)
- Sugeno, Kimi (John Wiley & Sons)
- Varnell, Gary (Osoft.com)
- Wang, Xin (ContentGuard, Inc.)
- Weinstein, Andrew (Lightning Source)
- Whitcomb, Tom (NetLibrary)
- Williams, Andy (Cambridge University Press)
- Willner, Eli (Green Point Technology Services)