If you write a book and it flops, wouldn't be great to get paid anyway?
Unfortunately that's not the way it works for authors, but it worked just fine for Ron Boire, the former CEO of floundering book chain Barnes & Noble.
He was fired in August of this year after less than a year in the post. During his tenure Barnes & Noble failed to thrive, so it's understandable that they wanted to replace him.
His reward for going away was $4.8 million.
Nice work if you can get it.
