diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 1ca04e5..2bcd23a 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -32,5 +32,5 @@ your filesystem script to find them, no matter where it's residing.
 
 WARNING:
 We have altered from the original FUSE Python API in non-compatible
-ways. See README.new_fusepy_api how can you get running a fs which is
+ways. See README.new_fusepy_api.rst how can you get running a fs which is
 written against the original API.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 58aca4b..dbe1624 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 This is a Python interface to libfuse
 (https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse).
 
-* The API is described in ``README.new_fusepy_api``. It's an
+* The API is described in [README.new_fusepy_api.rst](README.new_fusepy_api.rst). It's an
   informative description, not a reference. Apart from that, see the
   examples and the actual code.
 
diff --git a/README.new_fusepy_api b/README.new_fusepy_api.rst
similarity index 100%
rename from README.new_fusepy_api
rename to README.new_fusepy_api.rst
diff --git a/README.package_maintainers b/README.package_maintainers.rst
similarity index 76%
rename from README.package_maintainers
rename to README.package_maintainers.rst
index 4203c61..c4694de 100644
--- a/README.package_maintainers
+++ b/README.package_maintainers.rst
@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@ Therefore older fuse-python based filesystems *won't work* out of the box
 with fuse-python 0.2-pre1.
 
 However, no need to worry. Just read the *Old API/Enforcing compatibility*
-section of ``README.new_fusepy_api`` and you will know how to deal with the
+section of ``README.new_fusepy_api.rst`` and you will know how to deal with the
 situation.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 5a8cc15..1d420b8 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -100,8 +100,8 @@ a simple interface for userspace programs to export a virtual filesystem to the
        platforms = ['posix'],
        url = 'https://github.com/libfuse/python-fuse',
        package_data={'': ['COPYING', 'AUTHORS', 'FAQ', 'INSTALL',
-                          'README.md', 'README.new_fusepy_api',
-                          'README.package_maintainers']},
+                          'README.md', 'README.new_fusepy_api.rst',
+                          'README.package_maintainers.rst']},
        author = 'Jeff Epler <jepler@unpythonic.dhs.org>, Csaba Henk <csaba.henk@creo.hu>, Steven James, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>, Sébastien Delafond<sdelafond@gmail.com>',
        maintainer = 'Sébastien Delafond',
        maintainer_email = 'sdelafond@gmail.com',