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Amazon Sent Reporters An Adorable Book Ahead Of Its Product Launch Next Week

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Next week, Amazon is hosting a product launch in Seattle, most likely to release its long-rumored smartphone. On Friday, the company sent reporters an adorable teaser: A copy of CEO Jeff Bezos' favorite childhood book, "Mr Pine's Purple House." 

The book is about a man named Mr. Pine who hates how all the houses on his block look exactly the same, so he decides to try something different. He eventually ends up painting his house purple. 

"I think you'll agree that the world is a better place when things are a little bit different," the accompanying note reads.

Check it out:

Amazon Teaser
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From what we've heard about Amazon's new smartphone and seen in its teaser video, it looks radically different from anything else on the market. It will likely have motion sensors to track your movement and display images on its screen in such a way that they appear to pop out in 3D.

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Jillian was most recently an enterprise technology editor based in San Francisco.  She started at Insider as an intern on the technology desk in 2013 and rose to a senior reporter position, covering Alphabet, Facebook, and ecommerce. After three years at the site, she left to spend time freelance writing abroad, before taking reporting positions at CNBC and then at Forbes, where she covered Alphabet, Silicon Valley culture, and artificial intelligence. She returned to Insider in March 2020 and worked on the enterprise technology desk until August 2021.  Jillian graduated from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications with a degree in magazine journalism and information management and technology.