diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4ac5090a..6aaa13f4 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ in Internet Explorer on Windows 7 for instance (because of the wrong MIME type).
 
 ### Package Managers
 
-JavaScript Cookie supports [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/package/js-cookie) and [Bower](http://bower.io/search/?q=js-cookie) under the name `js-cookie`.
+JavaScript Cookie supports [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/package/js-cookie) under the name `js-cookie`.
 
 #### NPM
 ```
diff --git a/bower.json b/bower.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 9678d99f..00000000
--- a/bower.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "name": "js-cookie",
-  "license": "MIT",
-  "main": [
-    "src/js.cookie.js"
-  ],
-  "ignore": [
-    "test",
-    "Gruntfile.js",
-    "package.json",
-    ".gitignore",
-    ".eslintintignore",
-    ".eslintrc",
-    ".tm_properties",
-    ".travis.yml"
-  ]
-}