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Audible Launches $5 Million Fund to Pay Emerging Playwrights to Write Audio Dramas

The NY Times reports that Amazon's latest PR campaign centers on a $5 million fund for creating audio works:

The program is going to fund around a dozen playwrights to start.

“They’re actually getting paid to write a play,” Leigh Silverman, a member of the advisory board, said of the grant recipients. “That’s a rare thing, and it’s an important thing.”