--- title: "Digits: Bookstores, dungeons, and Italian jewels - The Hustle" description: "Plus: Bookstore sales and Francis Ford Coppola’s new movie." image: https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/hubfs/The%20Hustle%20News/Assets/Images/567582354-News-Brief_2022-02-21T064912.236Z-1024x683.webp --- # Digits: Bookstores, dungeons, and Italian jewels ![Jacob Cohen](https://thehustle.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IMG_5670-1-modified-768x768.png?width=48&height=48&name=IMG_5670-1-modified-768x768.png) [Jacob Cohen](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/author/jacob-cohen) [Jacob Cohen Twitter profile ](https://twitter.com/ImJacobCohen) Published: February 21, 2022 Updated: October 11, 2023 **1) **There are now ~32k jobs for travel nurses, up from ~8k in early 2020, with the average weekly pay standing at [**$3,334**](https://19thnews.org/2022/02/travel-nursing-covid-salary-pay-cap-investigation/) per week. In just 6 months, some travel nurses earn the entire median pay that non-travel nurses do in a year. ![Digits: Bookstores, dungeons, and Italian jewels](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/hs-fs/hubfs/The%20Hustle%20News/Assets/Images/567582354-News-Brief_2022-02-21T064912.236Z-1024x683.webp?width=595&height=400&name=567582354-News-Brief_2022-02-21T064912.236Z-1024x683.webp) **2) **Hasbro’s Wizards of the Coast unit, which oversees Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering, accounted for [**~46%**](https://www.wsj.com/articles/hasbro-activist-begins-proxy-fight-urges-dungeons-dragons-spinoff-11645056001) of the company’s $1.31B in annual earnings. **3) **Bookstore sales were up [**28%**](https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/88545-bookstore-sales-rose-28-in-2021.html) in 2021 after a major dip in 2020, hitting $9.03B, up from $6.5B. That’s much better than the 19.3% rebound seen across retail generally. **4) **A former Italian royal family is suing the government over [**~$342m**](https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-surprising-mystery-of-italys-crown-jewels-is-who-gets-to-keep-them-11645131022?mod=hp_featst_pos5) in crown jewels they claim are theirs. Interestingly, none of the royal family members have ever seen the jewels in person. **5) **Fancis Ford Coppola, the 82-year-old *Godfather* director, will spend up to [**$120m**](https://thefilmstage.com/francis-ford-coppola-hopes-his-120-million-epic-megalopolis-will-be-a-yearly-viewing-tradition-forever/) of his own fortune on *Megalopolis*, which no Hollywood studio will fund. The film’s cast is rumored to include Zendaya, Cate Blanchett, Oscar Isaac, Jon Voight, Forest Whitaker, and more. 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