diff --git a/notify/Cargo.toml b/notify/Cargo.toml
index 27eba72f..56b05bec 100644
--- a/notify/Cargo.toml
+++ b/notify/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ description = "Cross-platform filesystem notification library"
 documentation = "https://docs.rs/notify"
 homepage = "https://github.com/notify-rs/notify"
 repository = "https://github.com/notify-rs/notify.git"
-readme = "README.md"
+readme = "../README.md"
 license = "CC0-1.0 OR Artistic-2.0"
 keywords = ["events", "filesystem", "notify", "watch"]
 categories = ["filesystem"]