diff --git a/docs/index.txt b/docs/index.txt
index cad6123e..bb854782 100644
--- a/docs/index.txt
+++ b/docs/index.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
 ===================
 django-notification
 ===================
diff --git a/docs/usage.txt b/docs/usage.txt
index 60c6b65c..89623ed6 100644
--- a/docs/usage.txt
+++ b/docs/usage.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
 =====
 Usage
 =====
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 13833fbf..51e37253 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 setup(
     name='django-notification',
     version=__import__('notification').__version__,
-    description='Many sites need to notify users when certain events have occurred and to allow configurable options as to how those notifications are to be received. The project aims to provide a Django app for this sort of functionality.',
-    long_description=open('docs/index.txt').read(),
+    description='User notification management for the Django web framework',
+    long_description=open('docs/usage.txt').read(),
     author='James Tauber',
     author_email='jtauber@jtauber.com',
     url='http://code.google.com/p/django-notification/',