Tony Rose, Publisher/CEO
Amber Communications Group
Inc.
Tony Rose is the Publisher and CEO of Phoenix, AZ based, Amber
Communications Group, Inc., the nation’s largest African-American
Publisher of Self-Help Books and Music Biographies, The Harlem Book Fair
/ Phillis Wheatley Book Awards “2013 African American Book Publisher of
the Year” and the 2013 44th Annual NAACP Image Award winner for
Outstanding Literature (Youth/Teens), Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons –
A Dialogue With America’s Young Leaders by Gregory J. Reed, Esq. (Amber
Books).
ACGI’s imprints include: The NAACP Image Awards winning, Amber Books
Publishing; Amber Classics Books – Self-Help Reference Books; Colossus
Books – Music Biographies; Amber/Wiley Books – Self Help and Financial
Books Co-Published with John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Joyner/Amber Books –
Co-Publishing with the Tom Joyner Foundation and Desmoon Books –
Fiction.
Tony Rose led the movement towards modern Independent Book Publishing for the African American Self-Publisher and
Independent Book Publisher as we know it today.
In 2000 he responded to the needs of the growing market of self-publishers and founded
Quality Press, the nations largest “African American Book Packager”, in order to accommodate
authors who wished to self-publish their books, and placed the Quality Press Self-Publishers
Book Division under the direction of Yvonne Rose who is also an Associate Publisher for Amber
Communications Group, Inc. and the Director of Quality Press.
In 2004 Tony Rose co-founded and became the Executive Director of The African American
Pavilion at BookExpo America bringing together as exhibitors and attendees a community of
thousands of African American book publishers and book publishing industry professionals, a
feat that had been unprecedented in the 109-year history of BookExpo America. In 2005 Rose
founded the Katrina Literary Collective, which has been responsible for collecting and donating
over 90,000 books for the Hurricane Katrina Survivors and he serves a 2f