diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
index eb86981d..f652dd25 100644
--- a/docs/index.rst
+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ API <https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/>`_ documentation.
 
 Installation
 ============
-Install or upgrade *Spotipy* with:
+Install or upgrade *Spotipy* with::
 
     pip install spotipy --upgrade
 
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ in comparison with requests to the Web API made without an access token,
 is that a higher rate limit is applied.
 
 To support the **Client Credentials Flow** *Spotipy* provides a
-class SpotifyClientCredentials that can be used to authenticate requests like so:
+class SpotifyClientCredentials that can be used to authenticate requests like so::
 
 
     import spotipy
@@ -353,6 +353,7 @@ Spotipy authored by Paul Lamere (plamere) with contributions by:
   - Michael Birtwell // mbirtwell
   - Harrison Hayes // Harrison97
   - Stephane Bruckert // stephanebruckert
+  - Ritiek Malhotra // ritiek
 
 License
 =======
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index fe6c0e07..e4a6ae31 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 from setuptools import setup
 
-desc = """### A light weight Python library for the Spotify Web API"""
+with open("README.md", "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+    long_description = f.read()
 
 setup(
     name='spotipy',
     version='2.6.2',
-    long_description=desc,
-    long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
+    description='A light weight Python library for the Spotify Web API',
+    long_description=long_description,
+    long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
     author="@plamere",
     author_email="paul@echonest.com",
     url='http://spotipy.readthedocs.org/',