diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 34fabd4..a6fef5d 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 from pathlib import Path
 
-this_directory = Path(__file__).parent
-long_description = (this_directory / "README.md").read_text()
-
 setup(
     name="topomap",
     version="0.0.1",
@@ -22,7 +19,8 @@
     author="Vitoria Guardieiro, Felipe Inagaki de Oliveira, Harish Doraiswamy, Luis Gustavo Nonato, Claudio Silva",
     author_email="vitoriaguardieiro@gmail.com",
     description="TopoMap++: A faster and more space efficient technique to compute projections with topological guarantees",
-    long_description=long_description,
+    long_description=open('README.md').read(),
+    long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
     keywords=[
         "Topological data analysis", 
         "Computational topology",