diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 28f32182fe..898dc8234a 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ looked up at the following `Zenodo page <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.591669>`
 Additional Links
 ----------------
 
-Maintained by `Adam Ginsburg`_ and `Brigitta Sipocz <https://github.com/bsipocz>`_ (`astropy.astroquery@gmail.com`_)
+Maintained by `Adam Ginsburg`_ and `Brigitta Sipocz <https://github.com/bsipocz>`_
 
 
 .. _Download Development ZIP: https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/zipball/main
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 03b085a1c9..85c1ce81e0 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -19,4 +19,6 @@
 from pathlib import Path
 this_directory = Path(__file__).parent
 
-setup(long_description="README.rst", long_description_content_type='text/x-rst')
+long_description = (this_directory / "README.rst").read_text()
+
+setup(long_description=long_description, long_description_content_type='text/x-rst')