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AMBER COMMUNICATIONS GROUP, INC. COMPLETES AN INTERNATIONAL LICENSING DEAL WITH JAPAN
Amber Communications Group, Inc., Phoenix, AZ recently completed licensing the Japanese language worldwide rights for several celebrity bios by author Jake Brown.
[ClickPress, Thu Jan 12 2006] Amber Communications Group, Inc., Phoenix, AZ recently completed licensing the Japanese language worldwide rights for several celebrity bios by author Jake Brown. Included in the agreement are:
TUPAC SHAKUR … (2PAC) IN THE STUDIO - The Studio Years (1989-1996) (ISBN# 0-9767735-0-3); JAY Z & the ROC-A-FELLA RECORDS DYNASTY (ISBN# 0-9749779-1-8) and 50 CENT: NO HOLDS BARRED (ISBN# 0-9767735-2-X)
The deal was negotiated by Tony Rose, Publisher/CEO, ACGI; Lori Zajkowski, Foreign Rights Manager/Translator, Toppan Printing Company America, Inc. and Hiroshi Sano, Publisher/CEO, Transworld Japan Inc., Tokyo, Japan.
Tony Rose met Hiroshi Sano during the 2005 Book Expo America when Mr. Sano visited the ACGI booth in the African American Publishers Pavilion. Transworld Japan, Inc. is a leading Japanese International Publishing House.
ACGI is one of the few Independent African American Publishing Companies to have a Co-Publishing/Imprint deal with a major United States Publisher. To date, the deal between John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and ACGI includes seven bestselling titles, including the October 2005 publication of Wavy, Curly, Kinky...Fun Ways to Take Care of Your Child's Hair...The African American Children's Hair Care Guide (ISBN# 0-471-69534-3) by Deborah Lilly.
Tony Rose’s perception for publishing much needed African American self-help and Celebrity Bio books also caught the eye of Carole Mackey, Editor-in-Chief of Black Expressions Book Club. Black Expressions has licensed seven Amber/Colossus Book titles and four Amber/Wiley titles Including Wavy, Curly, Kinky for release in the nation's largest African-American Book Club.
As a leading book publisher, and mentor to hundreds of authors and publishers, Tony Rose has become one of the more forceful voices in the African American Book Publishing community. He co-founded the African American Publisher's Pavilion at Book Expo America and the Katrina Literary Collective, which has been responsible for collecting and donating over 80,000 books to date for the Hurricane Katrina Survivers.. He is also a "Coordinator" for the Community of Color Pavilion / African American Exhibitors at the American Library Association Annual Conference and a Member of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.
In addition to ACGI's recent Japanese agreement, ACGI is also in negotiations with a major Chinese Publisher for several titles including MICHAEL JACKSON: KING OF POP (ISBN# 0-9749779-0-X and ALICIA, ASHANTI, BEYONCE, DESTINY'S CHILD, JENNIFER LOPEZ and MYA: DIVAS OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM(ISBN# 0-9749779-6-9 for publication in China.
ACGI’s partnerships in the United States, Europe and South Africa have now extended into Asia.
AMBER COMMUNICATIONS GROUP, INC. is the nation's largest African-American Publisher of self-help books and celebrity biographies. The Publisher is the recipient of several awards including The Chicago Black Book Fair and Conference Independent Publisher/Press Award, The 2003 BlackBoard Bestseller's African-American Publisher of the Year Award, The 2003 American Library Association "Reluctant Reader" Award, The 2004 1st YOUnity Book Reviewers-Disilgold Soul Magazine "Publisher of the Millennium" Award, and The Cape Verdean News "Millennium Award" for Book Publishing Excellence.
The Company continues to expand with its award winning self help books imprint AMBER BOOKS, celebrity bio imprint BUSTA BOOKS, its COLOSSUS BOOKS imprint for international personalities and topics, its AMBROSIA BOOKS imprint for great literature, fiction and non-fiction, AMBER BOOKS 2 for general interest and AMBER/WILEY a multi-book co-publishing/imprint deal with John Wiley & Sons, Inc. for personal finance and beauty books. |