diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,15 +4,20 @@ uModbus is a pure Python implementation of the Modbus protocol with support
 for Python 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5 and Pypy. uModbus has no runtime depedencies.
 
 """
+import os
 from setuptools import setup
 
+cwd = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__name__))
+
+long_description = open(os.path.join(cwd, 'README.rst'), 'r').read()
+
 setup(name='uModbus',
       version='0.2.0',
       author='Auke Willem Oosterhoff',
       author_email='oosterhoff@baopt.nl',
       description='Implementation of the Modbus protocol in pure Python.',
       url='https://github.com/AdvancedClimateSystems/umodbus/',
-      long_description=__doc__,
+      long_description=long_description,
       license='MPL',
       packages=[
           'umodbus',
Fix long_description of setup.py.