diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index bb3ec5f0..9561fb10 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1 +1 @@
-include README.md
+include README.rst
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 03bb0b3c..e1ef6381 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ setup(
     name='httpie',
     version=httpie.__version__,
     description=httpie.__doc__.strip(),
-    long_description=open('README.md').read(),
+    long_description=open('README.rst').read(),
     url='http://httpie.org/',
     download_url='https://github.com/jkbr/httpie',
     author=httpie.__author__,