diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 4fa5074..48a771f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
     author_email="jbn@abreka.com",
     description="A tiny, subprocess-based tool for reading a MS Access database(.rdb) as a Pandas DataFrame.",
     long_description=open(README_FILE).read(),
+    long_description_meta="text/markdown",
     data_files=['README.md'],
     url="https://github.com/jbn/pandas_access"
-)
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+)