Tony Rose is the Publisher and CEO of Amber Communications Group, Inc. the nation’s largest African-American publisher of Self-Help Books and Music Biographies. ACGI's imprints include: the award winning Amber Books Publishing; Colossus Books, Music Biographies; Amber/Wiley Books, Self Help and Financial Books Co-Published with John Wiley & Sons Inc. and Joyner/Amber Books, Co-Publishing with the Tom Joyner Foundation.

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 as a founding Director of the Harlem Book Fair National, The Harlem Book Fair/Roxbury, Mass and in 2010 founded the Phoenix Book Fair and Art Festival a subsidiary of the National Coalition of Citywide Book Fairs, Art Festivals and Pavilions.

Tony Rose is the editor of numerous books and the co-writer of the national best-seller, Is Modeling For You: The Handbook and Guide For The Young Aspiring Black Model, written with Yvonne Rose, has penned the critically acclaimed, best-seller, Before the Legend: The Rise of New Kids On The Block and A Guy Named Maurice Starr, The Early Years, and has recently compiled, edited and published, the award winning, African American History In The United States of America - An Anthology - From Africa To President Barack Obama, Volume One, a Top Ten Best African American Book of 2009.