Thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain this to you
<i>I don’t know where that leaves you as a business.</i><p>I suspect this leaves Apress at the "Require all further authors to contractually promise us, in writing, that they are assigning Apress the <i>exclusive</i> right to publish/distribute the content and have not written any legal landmines which contradict this clause into the sections we routinely don't read".