Barnes and Noble has pulled a set of reimagined classic book covers featuring diverse protagonists after the project prompted an online backlash, with critics calling it a superficial stunt.
Barnes and Noble Pulls Diverse Book Covers Campaign After Online Backlash
The bookstore had teamed with TBWA\Chiat\Day and Penguin Random House on the project
The creators used AI to find books where a character's race was not specified.
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