Murat Arayici

I’m the son of a dramatist father and a chemist mother, like my sister. So I’ve been a walking conflict between letters and numbers. I was too capricious to pick either one of them and though there were times when I hated both (I refused to read any kind of books in high school years and I didn’t feel much like living when doing my M.Sc. in economics). Books are still with me and I make my living from them. I’m exchanging letters for numbers. I don’t know how good I am at publishing nor how much being good makes a difference when your subject of trade is based on the work of a genius like Michael Pollan’s The Botany of Desire, for example. What I know is that I enjoy doing it. What I enjoy apart from books are movies (sad to call it a hobby for someone who has been holding Oscar speeches in front of the mirror since he was 11 years old), rally car driving which I performed for a short period, music and Galatasaray. And the doorbell’s ringing, this should be the beauty I’m marrying this summer…

Domingo Publishing’s main focus is on illustrative non-fiction books, an underdeveloped segment in the Turkish book market. Our strategy is to focus on corporate partnerships to reach the print-runs necessary for making these books feasible on the local market. While doing this, for 2009 we are also enlarging our portfolio with paperback non-fiction bestsellers like Michael Pollan, Stuart Sutherland and QI team. Recently we also embarked on fiction with two foreign licences (“Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” and “The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie”).