Gates will touch on newest book at CEO summit

Seattle PI | at | by Mike

At the Microsoft CEO Summit two years ago, Chairman Bill Gates joked with executives about writing a new book because of the poor rankings of his older books on Amazon.com.

Gates -- who today will welcome more than 100 chief executives to the Microsoft campus for the CEO Summit -- may not have been joking after all.

The author of "The Road Ahead" and "Business @ the Speed of Thought" is planning to write a new book that addresses how coming technological innovations will change communications, entertainment and the way big institutions do business.