[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #38181: Add oEmbed support for Amazon Kindle Instant Previews

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#38181: Add oEmbed support for Amazon Kindle Instant Previews
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 Reporter:  jsepia                               |       Owner:  swissspidy
     Type:  enhancement                          |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  Future
Component:  Embeds                               |  Release
 Severity:  normal                               |     Version:  4.7
 Keywords:  has-patch needs-testing has-unit-    |  Resolution:
  tests                                          |     Focuses:
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Comment (by jsepia):

 We recently added OEmbed support for Amazon URLs. You can embed a sample
 of almost any Kindle book by copying the book's URL from the Amazon.com
 detail page (or Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.fr, etc) and pasting it into a blog
 post. We've been testing this on WordPress.com for about a week now and
 we're seeing quite a bit of usage.

 Regarding non-book products (e.g. a toaster), we haven't converged on what
 the right embed experience is for them, or if they should even be
 embeddable to begin with. For the time being, we believe it's better for
 our users if we just leave the URL untouched.

 I hope this change addresses @swissspidy and @jorbin's concerns regarding
 the usefulness of our oEmbed provider. We will continue to improve our
 service to support more use cases and book formats in the future.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/38181#comment:28>
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