diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 2ef91269..41050ad6 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 recursive-include demos *.py *.yaml *.html *.css *.js *.xml *.sql README
+recursive-include docs *
+prune docs/build
 include tornado/speedups.c
 include tornado/test/README
 include tornado/test/csv_translations/fr_FR.csv