diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9cddfb50e..e9c83baad 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -37,7 +37,9 @@ exec(compile(open('youtube_dl/version.py').read(),
              'youtube_dl/version.py', 'exec'))
 
 DESCRIPTION = 'YouTube video downloader'
-LONG_DESCRIPTION = open('README.md').read()
+LONG_DESCRIPTION = 'Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites'
+with open('README.md') as f:
+    README = f.read()
 
 py2exe_console = [{
     'script': './youtube_dl/__main__.py',
@@ -103,7 +105,7 @@ setup(
     name='youtube_dl',
     version=__version__,
     description=DESCRIPTION,
-    long_description=LONG_DESCRIPTION,
+    long_description=README,
     long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
     url='https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl',
     author='Ricardo Garcia',