diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ed63dba..fc11f14 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -43,7 +43,9 @@ class RunTests(Command):
 
         runner.run(suite)
 
-long_description = codecs.open("README.rst", "r", "utf-8").read()
+
+
+long_description = codecs.open("README.md", "r", "utf-8").read()
 
 setup(
     name='sphinxtogithub',