diff --git a/.github/workflows/pypi_release.yml b/.github/workflows/pypi_release.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d46e02b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/pypi_release.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+name: Publish to PyPI
+
+on:
+  push:
+
+jobs:
+  build_wheels:
+    name: Build wheels on ${{ matrix.os }}
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        os: [ubuntu-20.04, windows-2019, macos-11]
+    env:
+      CIBW_BEFORE_ALL_LINUX: "curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- --default-toolchain stable -y"
+      CIBW_BUILD_VERBOSITY: "1"
+      CIBW_SKIP: cp39-musllinux_i686 cp310-musllinux_i686 cp311-musllinux_i686 cp312-musllinux_i686 # Can't install Rust on musl based Linux systems
+      CIBW_ENVIRONMENT: 'PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.cargo/bin"'
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Set up QEMU
+        if: runner.os == 'Linux'
+        uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@v1
+        with:
+          platforms: all
+
+      - name: Build wheels
+        uses: pypa/cibuildwheel@v2.16.2
+        with:
+            package-dir: ./python
+            output-dir: ./python/wheelhouse
+
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: wheel-${{ runner.os }}
+          path: ./python/wheelhouse/*.whl
+
+  build_sdist:
+    name: Build source distribution
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - name: Install rust
+        uses: actions-rs/toolchain@v1
+        with:
+          toolchain: stable
+          profile: minimal
+
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        name: Install Python
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.9"
+
+      - name: Build sdist
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install setuptools-rust setuptools wheel
+          cd python/
+          python setup.py sdist
+
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
+        with:
+          name: sdist-${{ runner.os }}
+          path: python/dist/*.tar.gz
+  
+#   release:
+#     needs: [build_wheels, build_sdist]
+#     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+#     steps:
+#       - uses: actions/download-artifact@v2
+#         with:
+#           name: artifact
+#           path: python/dist
+
+#       - uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1
+#         with:
+#           packages-dir: python/dist/
+#           user: __token__
+#           password: ${{ secrets.PYPI_API_TOKEN }}
diff --git a/python/README.md b/python/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ac796f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# sqlite-zstd
+Extension for sqlite that provides transparent dictionary-based row-level compression for sqlite. This basically allows you to compress entries in a sqlite database almost as well as if you were compressing the whole DB file, but while retaining random access.
+
+See also the announcement blog post for some motivation, benchmarks and ramblings: https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2022/sqlite-zstd
+
+Depending on the data, this can reduce the size of the database by 80% while keeping performance mostly the same (or even improving it, since the data to be read from disk is smaller).
+
+Note that a compression VFS such as https://github.com/mlin/sqlite_zstd_vfs might be suited better depending on the use case. That has very different tradeoffs and capabilities, but the end result is similar.
+
+## Install
+```bash
+pip install sqlite-zstd
+```
+
+## Usage
+```python
+import sqlite3
+import sqlite_zstd
+
+conn = sqlite3.connect(':memory:')
+sqlite_zstd.load(conn)
+```
diff --git a/python/pyproject.toml b/python/pyproject.toml
index 2bf7023..ff915b9 100644
--- a/python/pyproject.toml
+++ b/python/pyproject.toml
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ name = "sqlite-zstd"
 requires-python = ">=3.9"
 dynamic = ["version"]
 
+[project.readme]
+file = "README.md"
+content-type = "text/markdown"
+
 [project.entry-points.datasette]
 sqlite_zstd = "sqlite_zstd.datasette"