This is where I was yesterday.

It is the breathtaking Peninsula de Magdalena in Santander. I was there with a colleague to join the annual meeting of the Federacion de Gremios de Editores de Espana (the Spanish Publishers' Association equivalent) to discuss the threats and opportunities for publishers in the digital world. We concluded that, in spite of all the difficulties and the length of the road, it's time for book publishers to take a walk on the digital wild side, build digital infrastructures, shake up traditional workflows, develop new marketing techniques and join the 21stcentury.

Meanwhile, across the Atlantic in Sao Paulo, our Macmillan English team is attending the annual LABCI (English language teaching) conference. You can read all about it on the MEC blog and here is the tourism ministry in Sao Paulo but our royal tradition (last week the Prince of Asturia award)continued with a mention of Macmillan English Campus by Princess Anne in her conference-opening address.

And finally on this mini world tour to Tokyo where there has been huge press coverage for an article by Emperor Akihito which has been published in Nature. Yet more royalty. What is going on?

It's hard to keep up with it all.