Yes. Bloomsbury has done it again.Jezebel reports on it
here and you can email Bloomsbury here:

Editorial and Marketing office:
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010
Phone: 646-307-5151
Fax: 212-780-0115
bloomsbury.kids@bloomsburyusa.com
children.publicity@bloomsburyusa.com

Below is the letter I just emailed them:

I was very aware of the controversy over Justine Larbalestier Liar last year (for one thing, she’s a friend of mine) and note that Bloomsbury backed off and changed the cover image from a young white woman to a (very light) African American woman. But it seems that your company still hasn’t learned that this kind of racism is no longer going to be ignored by the children’s lit community. You’ve done it again with Jaclyn Dolamore's first novel Magic Under Glass about a dark-skinned young woman from the far east. Please stop assuming that 1) no one (black or white) notices and 2) that we don’t care.
I’ve been in publishing for over thirty five years so you don’t need to inform me about marketing, etc.

With disappointment

Ellen Datlow

Editor

www.datlow.com
This is already all over the net and it should be. It breaks my heart for Justine, who has worked so hard on the book. I think by publicizing and responding to the issue, she's taken a very courageous stance and I hope that the outrage makes a difference. There are so many things wrong with the stance of her publisher that all I can do is sputter in rage.

If you haven't yet discovered it, please start here with Justine's blog
Ain't That a Shame

You might want to read her publisher's response in this article in Publishers' Weekly :

Justine Larbalestier’s Cover Girl


there are links all over the place, but here's Colleen Mondor's post:

Judge me: Liar Liar
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