diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index e519945..64e622d 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 include LICENSE
 include MANIFEST.in
-include README
+include README.md
 recursive-include people/templates *
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3c85df2..6a939a8 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ setup(
     name='django-people',
     version=__import__('people').__version__,
     description='Person model, mixins and helpers for Django',
-    long_description=read('README'),
+    long_description=read('README.md'),
     author='Erik Stein',
     author_email='erik@classlibrary.net',
     # url='https://github.com/sha-red/django-people/',