diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 6ca26c2..8f65558 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 include requirements.txt
 include tox.ini
-include setup.py
 include MANIFEST.in
 include LICENSE.txt README.rst CONTRIBUTORS.rst CHANGELOG.rst
 include demos/*
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 86cbaf3..33efb2d 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ CSS stylesheets.
 Installation
 ------------
 
-There are three ways to install ``svglib``.
+Here are two ways to install ``svglib``.
 
 1. Using ``pip``
 ++++++++++++++++
@@ -198,24 +198,6 @@ using these simple commands::
 `svglib with conda`_.
 
 
-3. Manual installation
-+++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-Alternatively, you can install a tarball like ``svglib-<version>.tar.gz``
-after downloading it from the `svglib page on PyPI`_ or the
-`svglib releases page on GitHub`_ and executing a sequence of commands
-like shown here::
-
-    $ tar xfz svglib-<version>.tar.gz
-    $ cd svglib-<version>
-    $ python setup.py install
-
-This will install a Python package named ``svglib`` in the
-``site-packages`` subfolder of your Python installation and a script
-tool named ``svg2pdf`` in your ``bin`` directory, e.g. in
-``/usr/local/bin``.
-
-
 Testing
 -------
 
@@ -259,8 +241,6 @@ well as the versions of ``svglib``, ReportLab and Python being used!
 .. _RML: https://www.reportlab.com/software/rml-reference/
 .. _svglib issue tracker: https://github.com/deeplook/svglib/issues
 .. _PyTest: http://pytest.org
-.. _svglib page on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/svglib/
-.. _svglib releases page on GitHub: https://github.com/deeplook/svglib/releases
 .. _Python file object: https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html#term-file-object
 .. _Anaconda: https://www.anaconda.com/download/
 .. _Miniconda: https://conda.io/miniconda.html
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fed528d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 9eec0f0..0000000
--- a/setup.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-import sys
-from setuptools import setup
-
-with open('requirements.txt', 'r') as f:
-    install_requires = f.read().strip().split()
-
-needs_pytest = {'pytest', 'test', 'ptr'}.intersection(sys.argv)
-pytest_runner = ['pytest-runner'] if needs_pytest else []
-
-setup(
-    install_requires=install_requires,
-    setup_requires=[] + pytest_runner
-)
diff --git a/tests/README.rst b/tests/README.rst
index 5d842a5..119d1ae 100644
--- a/tests/README.rst
+++ b/tests/README.rst
@@ -24,31 +24,6 @@ which is a simple ``pip install pytest``)::
 
     =============== 32 passed, 4 skipped in 49.18 seconds ================
 
-If for any reason you don't want to install ``pytest`` you can also
-run the following (which installs ``pytest-runner`` during testing)::
-
-    $ PYTHONPATH=. python setup.py test
-    running pytest
-    running egg_info
-    writing dependency_links to svglib.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
-    writing svglib.egg-info/PKG-INFO
-    writing requirements to svglib.egg-info/requires.txt
-    writing top-level names to svglib.egg-info/top_level.txt
-    reading manifest file 'svglib.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
-    reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'
-    writing manifest file 'svglib.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
-    running build_ext
-    ======================== test session starts =========================
-    platform darwin -- Python 3…, pytest-3…, py-1…, pluggy-0…
-    rootdir: /Users/dinu/repos/github/deeplook/svglib, inifile:
-    plugins: cov-2…
-    collected 33 items
-
-    tests/test_basic.py .........................
-    tests/test_samples.py .s.s.s.s
-
-    =============== 29 passed, 4 skipped in 38.95 seconds ================
-
 If you have ``tox`` installed (``pip install tox``) you can simply
 run the testsuite on Python 3.8 (assuming you have it installed) or on a
 single version (this will not run with ``conda``, yet, though)::